Subject: Re: [xsl] use contains() function on a node set in XPath 1.0 From: "Wolfhart Totschnig wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2022 16:26:37 -0000 |
Thank you very much, Wendell, for the prompt reply! Yes, both options work in my case. On 05-03-22 12:49, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Wolfhart -- > > Try this -- //notion[*[contains(.,'string')]] > > It returns all notionB elements with any children containing 'string'. > > More concisely, //notion[contains(.,'string')] returns all notions > containing 'string' - which is the same thing if notions contain only > elements, not text nodes. > > XPath 1.0 is still in scope for this list! > > Enjoy, Wendell > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 10:44 AM Wolfhart Totschnig > wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx> > <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hello, > > My question is about XPath 1.0, not XSL, but I hope that I may still > pose it here. The problem is, precisely, that I cannot use XSL > because I > am in a PHP context, using DOM to perform XPath queries on an XML > document. > > The situation is the following: I have <notion> elements that contain > one <name> element and zero or more <translation> elements. I want to > select them according to whether any of these child elements > contains a > certain string. I was hoping that it would be as easy as this: > > //notion[contains(*, "string")] > > But then I realized that the contains() function evaluates only the > first node of the set of child elements. So how can I do what I > want to > do? Since I am using DOM, I have to remain within XPath 1.0. > > Thanks in advance for your help! > Wolfhart > > > > > -- > ...Wendell Piez... ...wendell -at- nist -dot- gov... > ...wendellpiez.com... ...pellucidliterature.org... ...pausepress.org... > ...github.com/wendellpiez. <http://github.com/wendellpiez.>.. > ...gitlab.coko.foundation/wendell... > XSL-List info and archive <http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list> > EasyUnsubscribe <http://lists.mulberrytech.com/unsub/xsl-list/2652055> > (by email <>)
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