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Re: Searching Xml Question.

• From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• To: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:24:48 +0100

Probably xml-dev is the wrong list but what in Xpath 2.0 would be the
most efficient equivalent?

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On 3/20/07, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote:
> >
> > Ive tried using xpath, with xpath expressions such as:
> > //*[contains(string(@*), "SomeString")]
>
> In XPath 1.0, string() applied to a set of nodes returns the string value of
> the first node in the set (which means one of your attributes, chosen at
> random). In XPath 2.0, this is an error.
>
> Try //*[@*[contains(., "SomeString")]]
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>
> >
> > but this does not yield the desired results. (e.g. the above
> > expression only returns a small subset of all the results).
> >
> > any help would be greatly appreciated
> >
> > Regards, Paul
> >
> > Paul Popiel
> > Software Engineer
> > Advanced Engine Components Limited
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