Take a look at the XPath spec. I think you can test for prefix, suffix and containment as well as equality of text, e.g. starts_with(text(), 'something') or contains(text(), 'something') as well as text()='something'
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Zastrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <xindice-users@xml.apache.org> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: Step after step ... > ... I'm approaching a solution, but there is just another question :-) > > With the text()-function I can access the content of a node via XPath: > > xindice xpath_query -c /db/corpora/taz -q "/corpus//token[text()]" > > Is it now possible to use something like pattern matches to get just some of the tags? For example: > > <token> > something > </token> > > To access this tag using a query like "Give me all tags which are starting with 'some'" or > "Give me all tags that are ending with 'thing'" - or how can I solve this? > > Greetings and thanks, > > Tom > > P.S.: > I hope that you don't think that I'm to stupid using Google or reading some books ... I have already done that more than once and was not able to get a hint how to solve this in XIndice ... all the examples I got where XSLT and doesn't work in Xindice. > And I post this message just because in the thread above with Antoine nobodys answered ... > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > | So ein Unsinn sich einer Sekte anzuschliessen | > | wenn man Bier zuhause hat | > |--------------------------------------------------| > | http://www.thomas-zastrow.de | > ---------------------------------------------------- >