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(@Pattern,
'xyz')]

so for the given xml doc

<root>
<Datasets>
<Dataset name="dataset1" Pattern="abc" AnotherAttribute="xyz"/>
<Dataset name="dataset2" Pattern="xyz" AnotherAttribute="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.

Re: Select nodes where an attribute contains some sub-text
 

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(@Pattern,
> 'xyz')]

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


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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Re: Select nodes where an attribute contains some sub-text
 

By jove, it works!

Thanks,

Duncan.