lang

lang(string ) 

string

The language code or localization (language and country) code to be matched.

true if the context node matches the given languages. Otherwise, false.

• A node's language is determined by its xml:lang attribute. If the current node does not have an xml:lang attribute, then the value of the xml:lang attribute of the nearest ancestor that has an xml:lang attribute will determine the current node's language. If the language cannot be determined (no ancestor has an xml:lang attribute), this function will return false.

• If the given string does not specify a country code, this function will match nodes of that language with any country code. The converse is not true.

Given this fragment of XML:

<p xml:lang="en">I went up a floor.</p> <p xml:lang="en-GB">I took the lift.</p> <p xml:lang="en-US">I rode the elevator.</p> 

And this part of an XSL template:

<xsl:value-of select="count(//p[lang('en')])" /> <xsl:value-of select="count(//p[lang('en-GB')])" /> <xsl:value-of select="count(//p[lang('en-US')])" /> <xsl:value-of select="count(//p[lang('de')])" /> 

The output might be:

3 1 1 0 

XPath 1.0 4.3

Supported.