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Alistair Lindsay-Macfadyen
Alistair Lindsay-Macfadyen

Reputation: 135

xsl:for-each test a wildcard element

I am trying to loop through some XML until I find an element that contains a string of text.

take a very simple XML example.

<document>
  <item>
   <thing1>Fee</thing1>
   <thing2>Fi</thing2>
   <thing3>Fo</thing3>
   <some blah="Thingy">Fum</some>
   <another>I Smell</another>
   <other>Someone</other>
  </item>
</document>

I want to be able to search through for any element/s that contains "thing", I have seen this done before with an attribute like so...

<xsl:for-each test="contains(@blah,'Thingy')"></xsl:for-each>

but I want to search the "thing1, thing2, thing3" and then obtain their <xsl:value-of select"." /> which will be Fee, Fi, and Fo. I need to exclude the other elements as they aren't going to contain the string "thing"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 816

Answers (1)

michael.hor257k
michael.hor257k

Reputation: 116993

Try:

<xsl:for-each select="*[contains(name(), 'thing')]">

or, to better fit the given example:

<xsl:for-each select="*[starts-with(name(), 'thing')]">

Both to be called from the context of item.

Upvotes: 1

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