HP e-Commerce / XML director server appliance sa8250 - Users Guide

C H A P T E R 2 HP e-Commerce/XML Director Server Appliance SA8250 User Guide

This table shows function call samples.

Sample Pattern Description

//employee/name[starts-

with(@lastName,”S”)]

Matches if there is an employee element with a name child element

that has a lastName attribute value starting with “S”

//id[contains(@eid,

“456”)]

Matches if there is an id element with the value of an eid attribute

containing “456”

//id[contains(translate

(@jobClass,’abcdefghijk

lmnopqrstuvwxyz’,

‘ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP

QRSTUVWXYZ’),

‘SYSTEM ENGINEER’)]

Matches if there is an id element with the value of a jobClass

attribute containing “System Engineer.” All characters in the

jobClass attribute are converted to uppercase before being passed

to the contains function.

Function Call Samples