finding nodes that contain a given string

[gacaccia]

i'm working with IE and the "selectNodes" and "selectSingleNode" methods to retrieve node results from an xml file. i know how to use some basic xPath commands to query the xml document to get what i want. however, one thing i can't figure out is how to select a node based on whether its text is equal to or contains a given string.

for example, i have an xml document with a node called "description". i want to have a search utility where the user can type in some text and click search and it will return all nodes that contain a "description" node that contains the search string. i tried using the xPath function "contains", but couldn't get that to work. any thoughts?

as an example, my xml document might look like...

<item id=&quot;1&quot;>
  <description>description of item one</descriptioin>
</item>
<item id=&quot;2&quot;>
  <description>description of item two</description>
</item>

my javascript code might look like...

var nodeSet = xmlItems.XMLDocument.selectNodes(criteria)

i found one example that showed a general syntax of...

...selectNodes("//description [contains(text(),searchString)]");

...but it doesn't recognize "contains" to be a valid method.

thanks,

glenn

 

[JJR]

Hi Glenn,

Are you sure your code doesn't recognize the XPath function contains?

What is XMLDocument for kind of object? I guess it's an XMLDomDocument object. What I'm interested in is what version of IE you are using and what verson of XMLDomDocument you're instanciating.

If you use the wrong version of IE or of the XMLDomDocument object your code will not recognize certain XPath functions.

Could you post some more javascript code??

Jordi