How to apply wild cards on Attribute Value?

[vhassan]

<BookStore> <Book> <Page pname="abcded"/> <Page pname="def"/> <Page pname="ghi"/> <page pname="acd"/> <page pname="cad"/> <page pname="amd"/> </Book> </BookStore> How can I select all page elements (xpath query) having pname starting with "a" Thanks.

[Stuart Dootson]

Try //Page[starts-with(@pname, 'a')] (presuming it is Page, not page)

Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p