SelectSingleNode and Regular Expressions?

SelectSingleNode follows the XPath language rules, which has no provisions
for regular expressions.

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"Craig Buchanan" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to use regular expressions in an XMLNode.SelectSingleNode
> method?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig Buchanan
>
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Craig Buchanan wrote:
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> Is it possible to use regular expressions in an XMLNode.SelectSingleNode
> method?[/color]

Yes, that's possible, but not in pure XPath.
You can extend XPath with EXSLT extension functions (which include
regexp matching, testing and replacing). Read "EXSLT meets XPath"
article at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...xml11172003.asp

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