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RE: [xsl] Using regular expressions within xpath predicates

2009-02-04 12:31:19
Sweet!  That seems to work...  What is the "^\d+$" doing exactly?  I've
done a few searches and didn't come up with anything...  where would its
use be documented?

Thanks,

Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Honnen [mailto:Martin(_dot_)Honnen(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:09 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Using regular expressions within xpath predicates

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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