XPath wildcards for element name. 1

[PeterOcean]

To keep things simple, I have an XML like this:

<root>
<childA/>
<childB/>
<somethingelse/>
</root>


and i would like to use XPath (if possible) to give me all the child element of <root> that start with "child". So something like \root\child*

Is this possible and how?

Many Thanks

 

[jel]

You might consider rewriting your xml-structure:
<root>
<child @type="A"/>
<child @type="B"/>
<somethingelse/>
</root>
is easier to handle.

Anayway: this will do the trick:

root/*[substring(name(),1,5)='child']

 

[PeterOcean]

Just what I needed.

Thank you.