Two conditions using OR in XPATH

javascript xpath translate uppercase lowercase
edsamiracle picture edsamiracle · Sep 24, 2012 · Viewed 85.3k times · Source

I have a textbox, 'txtSearch'. I am using it to search people by Last Name. this is my code.

var xmlTempResultSearch = xmlResidentListDisplay.selectNodes(
    "//PeopleList/Row[contains(translate(@LastName, 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), '" +
    txtSearch.value + "')]");

This code selects all last names in the XML like the text input in the txtSearch textbox.

This translates all uppercase letters to lowercase letters.

So if I am searching for 'Dorosan', if I type 'doro', it retrieves the correct person because it translated the 'D' to 'd'. But when I type 'Doro', it doesn't retrieve the correct person.

I'm wondering if I can have two conditions in an XPATH, and how? I want to be able to translate all uppercase to lowercase, OR translate all lowercase to uppercase.

Answer

Jiri Kremser picture Jiri Kremser · Sep 24, 2012

and and or are allowed inside the condition: [here]. Or you may also use multiple paths in one XPath expression using the pipe sign.

//PeopleList/Row[c1] | //PeopleList/Row[c2]

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