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Re: Search in the value of an XML field

From: Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 5/1/2006 12:44:00 PM

Bogdan Zamfir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to use xpath to find a node that contains some string
> in ita value? Somehow like searching for the value of an attribute, but
> instead look in the node's text

Yes, the contains() function.

> To be more specific
> 
> if I have this xml
> 
> <customer>
>   <name part="first">John</name>
>   <name part="last">Doe</name>
> </customer>
> 
> I can search with the following  xpath expression to get the first name
> //customer/name[@part="first"]

customer/name[@part='first'][contains(.,'John')]

> But if I have this xml
> <customer>
>   <name>first: John</name>
>   <name>last: Doe</name>
> </customer>

Why would you do that in XML? This would be mixing markup with content.
This is A Very Bad Ideaâ„¢

> How can I find node with first name? I don't want to get the whole
> collection of name nodes from customer, scan all and check if text
> includes "first"

You don't want to do this.

///Peter


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