Hello,
Does anybody know how selecting CDATA section text in the starts-with() function works when writing XPath-based parser rules?
I've been trying to test this using the following XML and I'm having no luck:
I tried writing a parser rule that selects <value> elements if the <key> element starts with the letter 'a'. I wrote the following XPath query as a test:
//group[starts-with(key,'a')]/value
This should work - in fact, every other XPath processor I've tried here returns the correct nodeset. For example, here's XPath Visualizer:
But when used in an XML parser rule, the query returns absolutely nothing.
Here's the parser rule:
Here's the result - there are no segments:
I've also tried selecting the text node on <key> elements instead:
//group[starts-with(key/text(),'a')]/value
//group[key[starts-with(text(),'a')]]/value
Neither of these work either.
Is this a limitation of the starts-with() function in Studio? Or does anybody know how Studio expects these types of nodes to be selected? I'm running out of ideas here!
Thanks very much.
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[edited by: Trados AI at 4:13 AM (GMT 0) on 5 Mar 2024]
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