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RE: XPath question (in .NET)

• To: "'Paul Popiel'" <PaulP@a...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XPath question (in .NET)
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:45:59 -0000
• In-reply-to: <B9F4AED7AF54D511BDA600306E07B46001780700@EXCHANGEPER>
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The current() function is available only in XSLT (and it would do the wrong
thing here anyway).

You just want //*[contains(., $searchText)]

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Popiel [mailto:PaulP@a...] 
> Sent: 09 December 2005 05:23
> To: 'xml-dev@l...'
> Subject:  XPath question (in .NET)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just want to get an xpath expression that basically works 
> like a search
> function for the xml.
> 
> e.g. want to search for the text "sample text" and return the 
> XmlNodeList of
> all element that contain that text (much like searching the 
> OuterXml of the
> element, excluding child nodes).
> 
> 
> tried things such as: 
> //*[contains(string(current()), searchText)]
> 
> but that doesnt work (throws some sort of XPath exception)
> 
> 
> any help would be appreciated, thanks
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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