[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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/
Well shut my mouth! There *is* an xml/xpath python Guru here. *sigh* Sorry Bruce, (and everybody else on this newsgroup) I apologize for mouthing off and not contributing to a greater signal-to-noise ratio. I guess that should teach me not to post so quickly when I'm in a bad mood. I'll do better in the future. Peace, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
