Re: [xsl] Find elements where any attribute contains alpha-numerical chars of an input string

[Graydon <graydon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 11:54:22PM +0100, Philipp Kursawe scripsit:
> I have this rather complex xpath:
> 
> //element[@*[contains(translate(., translate(.,
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789', ''),
> ''), translate('string', translate('string',
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789', ''),
> ''))]]
> 
> where "string" would be an input string with non-alpha chars and
> spaces and mixed letter cases.
> I would like to select any element whose attributes contain parts of
> the input string, stripped by non-alpha chars and whitespace.
> 
> Problem is, the xpath does not work for mixed char input strings.

Wouldn't 

//element[matches(@*,replace($string,'[\p{L}\p{Nd}]',''),'i')]

work?

(I'm really not quite clear what you mean by whitespace above; you don't do
anything with it in your example XPath, so it's unclear to me if you
want to strip the whitespace from the attributes or the provide string.)

-- Graydon