Subject: Re: Using regular expressions within xpath predicates
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:08:47 +0100
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Randy Booth wrote:
Can anyone share an example of using regular expressions within an xpath
predicate? I'm wanting to parse a structure and pick out any elements
that have a non-numeric name. Example:
<security>
<policies>
<policy>
<name>randy</name>
...
</policy>
<policy>
<name>1</name>
...
</policy>
<policy>
<name>policy 101</name>
...
</policy>
<policy>
<name>3</name>
...
</policy>
I'm trying to figure out what xpath expression would identify the
policies with alpha characters... Something like:
not(/security/policies/policy[name=[0-9]*])
/security/policies/policy[not(matches(name, '^\d+$'))]
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
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