XPath - Contains function
  • Vote Up0Vote Down scottr October 2010

    I'm trying to match a partial value to something in my Vae collection using the following XPath function contains:
    path = rings[contains(sku,'ME')]
    rings is my collection, sku is the field in the collection I want to search and "ME" is what I'm searching for.

    But Vae shoots me back an error: http://cl.ly/f152885e8ae89059f6d6

    Don't know if this helps, but here is a link to the moz dev forums: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPath/Functions/contains about the function.

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  • Vote Up1Vote Down KevinKevin December 2010

    Question, would this work:

    path = rings[contains(sku,'ME')=1]

    I don't know enough about XPath to answer that question, but that might work around some of the VaeQL weirdness. Give it a try.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down KevinKevin November 2010

    Currently we don't support boolean XPath functions. This is honestly the first case I've ever seen someone trying to use them. I'd be up for trying to add this capacity, but I can't project a date when it would be available. Watch this thread for announcements.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down dmitrydmitry November 2010

    Scott, if you are using VaeML you can try using the "filter" attribute:

    <v:collection path="/your_path" filter="your_query">
    ...
    </v:collection>

  • Vote Up0Vote Down adam_crvn April 2011

    FYI, Kevin's solution worked for me

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