RE: xpath doesn't support substring !

XPath has functions substring(), substring-before(), and starts-with(),
which between them should meet your requirements. I don't know how you
missed these.
 
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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From: www-xpath-comments-request@w3.org
[mailto:www-xpath-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Le Mai Tung
Sent: 23 May 2006 04:27
To: www-xpath-comments@w3.org
Subject: xpath doesn't support substring !


Hello there, 
I got one comment 
I want to select the node whose value contains a substring.
For eg: 

<Data>
<ID>1</ID> 
<Name>Abramson, Norman</Name> 
</Data>

I want to select the <Name> node containing "Abramson" , so I cannot use the
= operator, but I found no "substring" command. I must query all nodes,
check them all, kind of lengthy job !
Hope to get this feature someday, thanks for reading.


life is not only 17 inches 

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