Querying attributes

[Richard L Rosenheim]

Is it possible to have a XPath query that returns all elements where any of
its attributes begins with the specified string?

TIA,

Richard Rosenheim

[Derek Harmon]

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message news:uM**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Is it possible to have a XPath query that returns all elements where any of
its attributes begins with the specified string?

//@*[starts-with(local-name(),'yourString']/..

This gets all attributes, filters them down to only those that have a local name
starting with the text "yourString" (matches attributes named yourStringAttr,
yourString, but does not match attributes named your or myString), and then
walks back up to the parent element(s) using ".." at the end.
Derek Harmon

[Richard L Rosenheim]

Thanks.

Richard Rosenheim
"Derek Harmon" <lo*******@msn.com> wrote in message
news:Os**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message news:uM**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Is it possible to have a XPath query that returns all elements where any of its attributes begins with the specified string?

//@*[starts-with(local-name(),'yourString']/..

This gets all attributes, filters them down to only those that have a

local name starting with the text "yourString" (matches attributes named yourStringAttr, yourString, but does not match attributes named your or myString), and then walks back up to the parent element(s) using ".." at the end.
Derek Harmon