[xquery-talk] Help with trimming down an XPath expression

[Carlo Innocenti]

Maybe...
//pre[matches(., "^(string|void|int|float|bool)")]

Minollo


At 01:29 PM 4/24/2006, Todd Ditchendorf wrote:
>Hi gang,
>
>I'm looking for a way to trim this expression down:
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>//pre[starts-with(.,"string") or starts-with(.,"void") or 
>starts-with(.,"int") or starts-with(.,"float") or starts-with(.,"bool")]
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>Basically, I'm looking for an XPath 2.0 expression that will locate 
>a <pre> element anywhere in my document whose string-value starts 
>with one of : "string", "void", "int", "float", or "bool"
>
>Is there any way to express this a little more tersely?
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>Todd Ditchendorf