Re: How to select elements containing ARPT but not el

Hi Folks,

Thank you for your excellent responses. The code you provided works
perfectly.

For my education, would you please explain why this XPath expression selects
all <row> elements:

//row[matches(affected_tables, '[ ;]?ARPT[ ;]?')]

Recall the input:

<test>
  <row>
    <column_header>A</column_header>
    <affected_tables>ARPT_RMK</affected_tables>
  </row>
  <row>
    <column_header>B</column_header>
    <affected_tables>APPC_ARPT</affected_tables>
  </row>
  <row>
    <column_header>C</column_header>
    <affected_tables>HLPT; ARPT</affected_tables>
  </row>
  <row>
    <column_header>D</column_header>
    <affected_tables>HLPT; ARPT; VFR_RTE</affected_tables>
  </row>
  <row>
    <column_header>E</column_header>
    <affected_tables>ARPT; VFR_RTE</affected_tables>
  </row>
  <row>
    <column_header>F</column_header>
    <affected_tables>ARPT</affected_tables>
  </row>
  <row>
    <column_header></column_header>
    <affected_tables>ARPT</affected_tables>
  </row>
</test>

/Roger