XPATH Function - contains

[netgouki]

Hi,
I have a problem in using DOMElement.singleNodes with function "contains" in Javascript.

I write the xPath Syntax as
"match[contains(team/teamID, 'ABC')]"

here's the XML:
<match>
<team>
<teamID>ABCD</teamID>
<teamName>ABCD United</teamNAME>
</team>
</match>

By an error "unknown method" occured.

What's the problem? Thank you very much.

[me']

I've never seen that function before &mdash; are you sure it exists? Try checking:alert([elementsname].singleNodes);(eg, if your element was called foo, then you'd call alert(foo.singleNodes)

[brothercake]

Internet Explorer has a contains() method, but it's proprietary to IE. You can prototype your own like this (courtesy of jkd):

HTMLElement.prototype.contains = function(node)
{
if (node==null) { return false; }
if (node==this) { return true; }
else { return this.contains(node.parentNode); }
}

[me']

Originally posted by brothercake
Internet Explorer has a contains() method, but it's proprietary to IE. But contains() is an in-built XPath method, which means it takes place with XSLT on the server. I've used it before with no problems.

[liorean]

DOMElement.singleNodes? There is a DOMElement.singleNodeValue, but no DOMElement.singleNodes, at least not in either of [DOM3 Core] and [DOM3 XPath]. The contains function is XPath, though. See <http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-contains>.