bruce wrote: > is there anyone with XPath expertise here? i'm trying to figure out if > there's a way to use regex expressions with an xpath query? i've seen > references to the ability to use regex and xpath/xml, but i'm not sure how > to do it... > > i have a situation where i have something like: > /html/table/..../[EMAIL PROTECTED]'foo'] > > is it possible to do soomething like [EMAIL PROTECTED]/fo/] so i'd match the > class > attribute with fo.... > > i'm trying to parse HTML/Web docs...
4Suite [1] supports regex in XPath using the EXSLT community standard's regex module [2]. It would be something like: [re:match(@class, 'fo.*'] With the re prefix set as required by the EXSLT module. [1] http://4Suite.org [2] http://www.exslt.org/regexp/ -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list