[whatwg] getElementsByIdPart

Thank you Zack and others:

I was able to use the contains function so long as I loaded an XML 
document into the DOM but I'll re-do my sample again.  I am probably 
missing something.

Thanks,
ChrisWa.


Zack Rusin wrote:

>On Monday 09 August 2004 15:57, you wrote:
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>>Ok Zack or any one else on the list can you provide me with an
>>example?  I've search the .net and I cannot find an example using
>>XPATH that can provide a list of DOM elements matching an attribute
>>substring.
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>Expression like "//*[contains(@name,'hello')]" returns all elements 
>where name attribute contains the string hello.
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>>Mind you I'm not saying that you cannot do that with an XML document.
>> You can but can you do this in an HTML DOM document?  
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>It's operating on a DOM tree either way, so it makes absolutely no 
>difference.
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>Zack
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Received on Monday, 9 August 2004 21:26:25 UTC