RE: [xml-dev] Searching Xml Question.

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
> Probably xml-dev is the wrong list but what in Xpath 2.0 
> would be the most efficient equivalent?

I can't see what's wrong with the solution given. Sometimes XPath 1.0 is
good enough!

(A lot of people have problems with the contains() function, because the
name of the function suggests to them that it expects a set of things as its
argument, and a lot of people never read the spec for a function, they try
to guess what it does from its name. has-substring() might have been a
better choice. But it's too late to change that.)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> 
> Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen
> 
> On 3/20/07, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Ive tried using xpath, with xpath expressions such as:
> > > //*[contains(string(@*), "SomeString")]
> >
> > In XPath 1.0, string() applied to a set of nodes returns the string 
> > value of the first node in the set (which means one of your 
> > attributes, chosen at random). In XPath 2.0, this is an error.
> >
> > Try //*[@*[contains(., "SomeString")]]
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> >
> > >
> > > but this does not yield the desired results. (e.g. the above 
> > > expression only returns a small subset of all the results).
> > >
> > > any help would be greatly appreciated
> > >
> > > Regards, Paul
> > >
> > > Paul Popiel
> > > Software Engineer
> > > Advanced Engine Components Limited
> > >
> > > 
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