[xquery-talk] Regular Expression search

Elarrat, EFC eduardoelarrat at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 10:19:18 PST 2005


I appreciate your answers. Thank you.

On 12/12/05, Elarrat, EFC <eduardoelarrat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The error is just a detail, I built this structure just to show you how to
> do what I really wanted, but thanks anyway, your code worked well.
>
> On 12/12/05, Henry Luo <henryluo at vibrasoft.net> wrote:
> >
> > The XPath or XQuery expression to fulfill your requirement:
> > //*[starts-with(local-name(), "subTag") and starts-with(text(),
> > "MyNameIs"]
> >
> > And your XML seems to contain one mistake,
> > it should be <subTagB>MyNameIsElarrat</subTagB> instead of
> > <subTagB>MyNameIsElarrat</subTagA>
> >
> > Henry
> >
> > Elarrat, EFC wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > lately I've been trying to build a xquery search that contains regular
> > > expressions to get my result, but I couldnt make it. So I would like
> > > to know how to search within a xml structure for some generic tags.
> > > For example:
> > >
> > > This xml:
> > >
> > > <tagA>
> > >     <subTagA>MyNameIsEduardo</subTagA>
> > > </tagA>
> > > <tagB>
> > >     <subTagB>MyNameIsElarrat</subTagA>
> > > </tagB>
> > >
> > > How do I search for subTags that begins with "MyNameIs" and ends with
> > > anything else so I can have both subTags on my result? Thanks in
> > advance,
> > >
> > >
> > > Eduardo Elarrat
> > >
> >
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