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Re: [xsl] Using regular expressions within xpath predicates

2009-02-04 12:09:18
Randy Booth wrote:
Can anyone share an example of using regular expressions within an xpath
predicate?  I'm wanting to parse a structure and pick out any elements
that have a non-numeric name.  Example:

<security>
        <policies>
                <policy>
                        <name>randy</name>
                        ...
                </policy>
                <policy>
                        <name>1</name>
                        ...
                </policy>
                <policy>
                        <name>policy 101</name>
                        ...
                </policy>
                <policy>
                        <name>3</name>
                        ...
                </policy>


I'm trying to figure out what xpath expression would identify the
policies with alpha characters...  Something like:

not(/security/policies/policy[name=[0-9]*])

  /security/policies/policy[not(matches(name, '^\d+$'))]

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        Martin Honnen
        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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