Subject: Re: Find elements where any attribute contains alpha-numerical chars of an input string
From: Graydon <graydon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 21:44:11 -0400
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 11:54:22PM +0100, Philipp Kursawe scripsit:
> I have this rather complex xpath:
>
> //element[@*[contains(translate(., translate(.,
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789', ''),
> ''), translate('string', translate('string',
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789', ''),
> ''))]]
>
> where "string" would be an input string with non-alpha chars and
> spaces and mixed letter cases.
> I would like to select any element whose attributes contain parts of
> the input string, stripped by non-alpha chars and whitespace.
>
> Problem is, the xpath does not work for mixed char input strings.
Wouldn't
//element[matches(@*,replace($string,'[\p{L}\p{Nd}]',''),'i')]
work?
(I'm really not quite clear what you mean by whitespace above; you don't do
anything with it in your example XPath, so it's unclear to me if you
want to strip the whitespace from the attributes or the provide string.)
-- Graydon
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