TopBanana

I need to select all nodes whose name begins with 'PREMIUMCLASS-'. I can't seem to select 'PREMIUMCLASS-*' - there must be a way to do this surely?

stevencotton

Are you using XML::XPath under Perl?

Steve.

TopBanana

No - I'm doing a transformation using the DOM

stevencotton

Which language? Document Object Model is just an interface.

TopBanana

I don't see how the language makes any odds? I need an XPath solution

stevencotton

It makes all the difference because while the API may be the same, the way you actually use it will differ.

TopBanana

Hmm, I'm a little dubious be I'll give you the benefit of the doubt!

Using C# and the System.Xml namespace. I need the solution to work inside an XSL template though, with a for-each..

Cheers for yr help

stevencotton

Unless you see a method that can do it for you you won't be able to do it with the API, which is why I asked which language; if you want to pattern match on nodes and the API doesn't afford you the luxury then the problem becomes language specific.

Does't matter, C# I can't help you with

Good luck,
Steve.

TopBanana

I don't want to do it with the API though, just doing a straight XSLT transformation - it's the same on Java, C#, whatever! Looking for a means of doing the pattern matching using XPath - but it doesn't seem to work that way. Ah well....

Cheers

TopBanana

WHO DA MAN!!!

(Now why didn't I think of that?!)

netclectic2

//*[starts-with(name(),'PREMIUMCLASS-')]

howzat!?

there are some good xpath examples here

xpathvisualizer is also a very handy tool.

[Edited by netclectic2 - 5/7/2002 3:33:09 PM]