[Greasemonkey] Pattern matching on an attribute?

[Philip Friedman - Auto Europe]

Do you expect the asterisk in foo* to act as a wild card? The Xpath =
operator does not do that. In base Xpath there are no regular expressions.
Try the starts-with or another Xpath function.

document.evaluate('//img[starts-with(@src,"foo")]', document, null,
XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null );

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Regards, Phil Friedman - Auto Europe 

|-----Original Message-----
|From: greasemonkey-bounces at mozdev.org 
|[mailto:greasemonkey-bounces at mozdev.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Buchanan
|Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:27 PM
|To: greasemonkey at mozdev.org
|Subject: Re: [Greasemonkey] Pattern matching on an attribute?
|
|Sean LeBlanc wrote:
|> I'm trying to figure out how I might pattern match on an attribute. 
|> 
|> Something like:
|> 
|> document.evaluate('//img[@src="foo*"]'),
|>  document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE,
|>  null );
|> 
|> Doesn't seem to work. Is there any way to do this without 
|getting all 
|> that match img and then cycling over those?
|> 
|> Thanks,
|
|Does this do what you want?
|
|//img[starts-with(@src,'foo')]
|
|Reference:
|http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-String-Functions
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