Re: matches() method in XPath 1.0

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11857166/36305

This XPath 2.0 expression:

   ends-with($s, $t)

Has this equivalent in XPath 1.0:

$t = substring($s, string-length($s) - string-length($t) +1)


Thanks,
Dimitre

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:30 PM Manuel Souto Pico terminolator@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a simple question, hopefully someone can help.
>
> Given some nodes like this:
>
> <text>Some text.</text>
> <text>foo.svg</text>
>
> in XPath 2.0 I can match the ones (like the second) that contain a file
> name with something like
>
> //text[matches(text(), '[^\s]*\.(svg|png|jpg)')]
>
> That should match the second text node, and not the first.
>
> I am looking for something to achieve the same purpose in XPath 1.0, even
> if it's using something like ends-with instead of regex.
>
> Why XPath 1.0? I'd love to use version 2.0 but this is for using the ITS
> data categories, which seem not to be compatible with XPath 2.0
> https://www.w3.org/TR/its20/#d0e2513
>
> Could someone have an idea?
> Thank you so much.
> Cheers, Manuel
>
> PS: Apologies if questions about XPath are not appropriate in this list,
> please let me know if that's the case.
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