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Select nodes where an attribute contains some sub-text

Can I use the contains() function within an xpath query to return a
node whose attribute contains some text?

Something like: selectNodes("//Dataset[@Pattern contains(@Patte rn,
'xyz')]

so for the given xml doc

<root>
<Datasets>
<Dataset name="dataset1" Pattern="abc" AnotherAttribut e="xyz"/>
<Dataset name="dataset2" Pattern="xyz" AnotherAttribut e="xyz"/>
<Dataset name="dataset3" Pattern="vwxyz"/>
</Datasets>
</root>

The nodes dataset2 and dataset3 would be returned because their
'Pattern' attribute contains the text 'xyz'.

Many thanks,

Duncan.

Feb 9 '06 #1
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Duncan wrote:
Can I use the contains() function within an xpath query to return a
node whose attribute contains some text?
Yes.

Something like: selectNodes("//Dataset[@Pattern contains(@Patte rn,
'xyz')]


That is syntactically wrong. A possible XPath expression could be
/root/Datasets/Dataset[contains(@Patte rn, 'xyz')]
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
Feb 9 '06 #2
By jove, it works!

Thanks,

Duncan.

Feb 9 '06 #3

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