My goal is to select some XPath nodes based on whether their values (text)
contain a string passed as argument. To achieve this I use the contains()
function of XPath in an XpathExpression.

For example, given the following fragment...

<code>
<Exprs>
<Expr>red fox</Expr>
<Expr>jump over</Expr>
<Expr>box</Expr>
</Exprs>
</code>

.... I want to select the second <Expr> and test whether it contains the
string argument "jump":
(I am passing values to the contains() function dynamically, but here I
will use static values for clarity.)

<code>
xPthExpr = xPathNavig.Compile("/Exprs/Expr[contains(" + "jump over," +
"jump" + ")]" );
xPathNodeIter = xPathNavig.Select(xPthExpr);
</code>

Now, of course contains() returns true for all the nodes and all the nodes
get selected. Instead, I want a behaviour like this: select ONLY the node(s)
where the value CONTAINS (not is equal to) "jump", something like the LIKE
SQL clause.Can I do this w/ XPath at all? I need it instead XmlDocument for
sake of speed.

TIA

* sprungli wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:
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Pass e.g. '.' or 'text()' as the first argument to contains as that

Thanks Bjoern, that helped.

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