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Re: Using regular expressions within xpath predicates

Subject: Re: Using regular expressions within xpath predicates
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:08:47 +0100
Re:  Using regular expressions within xpath predicates
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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