Search using XPath

[H Melua]

Hello

I'd like to know how to search for a particular word in a child element.. like searching for the word "happy" in

<word>i'm feeling happy<word>

I can search for the whole sentence, and i can check using "contains" function that the word actually exists there, but i want it to return the element not just returns true!

any ideas?

thanks :thumb:
HannaH

[Paul Clapham]

You want elements where the text contains "happy"? When your requirements contain that word "where", that means you should use a predicate. So your XPath would look like this:

word[contains(*,'happy')]

[H Melua]

Thanks, but that doesnt seem to return anything at all

i've tried doing this..

sentence[contains(word,'happy')]/word

but that didnt work either , when i check the list returned from this query, it tell me that the size of the list is 3 (which is right) but when i try to extract the word element using

Element.getChildText("word");

it returns null

[Craig Bayley]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<words>
<word>i'm feeling happy</word>
<word>i'm feeling sad</word>
<word>i'm feeling fat</word>
</words>    

Evaluating XPath:

//word[contains(.,'happy')]

gives 'i'm feeling happy'

[H Melua]

Thanks very much guys

I guess the problem is somewhere else

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EDITED!!!

now it works!!! bloody hell, it took me weeks to figure out why it wasnt doing it!! i had to demonstrate 2 of my assignments without making my lecturer realise that the search wasnt working correctly!

oh well, now it does

Thanks very much again :thumb:
[ November 27, 2007: Message edited by: H Melua ]