Re: [xml-dev] Searching Xml Question.

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>]

* Paul Popiel wrote:
>I need to be able to search an XML document for a user-specified string.
>Namely i want to be able to get an XmlNodeList back of all nodes that have
>an attribute value containing the specified string.

Try `//*[@*[ contains(., 'string') ]]`. Note that if the string is user-
specified you cannot simply use string concat to generate the expression
since the string might contain the quote marks you are using. You can
work around that by using a variable or by splitting the string and the
concat function with appropriate quote marks as needed. Another way to
write the expression would be `//@*[ contains(., 'string') ]/..`.
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