XPath - String Functions
The part of XML document that we will use for the following examples is:
<Data>
<PrimaryDocument SCIObjectID="serverName:6546ef:f8ca28794b:-3ae6"/>
<username>Joe</username>
..........
<firstname>Joe</firstname>
<lastname>User</lastname>
<fullname>Joe User</fullname>
..........
1. concat(//firstname/text(),'_',//lastname/text())
Concatenate content of firstname element, string '_' and content of lastname element.
Result: Joe_User
2. starts-with(/*/*[position()=2]/text(),'J')
Check if the content of the child of the root element, at the second position, starts with the letter 'J'.
Result: true
3. starts-with(//username,'J')
Check if the content of username element starts with the letter 'J'.
Result: true
4. starts-with(//username,'o')
Check if the content of username element starts with the letter 'o'.
Result: false
5. contains(//username,'o')
Check if the content of username element contains the letter 'o'.
Result: true
6. substring-before(//email,'@')
Select a substring of email element, returns start of email element before string '@' that occurs in it
Result: Joe.User
7. substring-after(//email,'@')
Select a substring of email element, returns remainder of email element after string '@' that occurs in it
Result: gmail.com
8. substring(//email,9,1)
Select a substring starting at the position 9 with length 1.
Result: @
9. string-length(//email)
Return the number of characters in the string that is content of email element.
Result: 8
10. translate(//email,'@','_')
Translates the character '@' with '_' in the element email.
Result: Joe.User_gmail.com
