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RE: Using regular expressions within xpath predicates

Subject: RE: Using regular expressions within xpath predicates
From: Randy Booth <rbooth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:26:46 -0800
RE:  Using regular expressions within xpath predicates
Sweet!  That seems to work...  What is the "^\d+$" doing exactly?  I've
done a few searches and didn't come up with anything...  where would its
use be documented?

Thanks,

Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Honnen [mailto:Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:09 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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+$'))]

--

	Martin Honnen
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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