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

[Jonathan Robie]

I get the impression that this would be a whitespace delimited keyword? 
If so, you could also use fn:tokenize():

let $p := <pre>int i;</pre>
return
    tokenize($p, "\s+")[1] = ("int", "void", "string", "bool", "float"*)

Depending on your implementation, the performance of these solutions can 
vary widely.

Jonathan
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Carlo Innocenti wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> //pre[starts-with(.,"string") or starts-with(.,"void") or 
>> starts-with(.,"int") or starts-with(.,"float") or starts-with(.,"bool")]
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Todd Ditchendorf
>
>
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