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Need help with XPath. I have such a XML:

   <unaryExpression tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8">
      <postfixExpression tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8">
        <leftHandSideExpression tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8">
          <newExpression tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8">
            <memberExpression tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8">
              <primaryExpression tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8">
                <literal tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8">
                  <stringLiteral tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8">
                    <LITERAL tokenValue="'http://google.com'" tokenLine="1" tokenColumn="8"/>
                  </stringLiteral>
                </literal>
              </primaryExpression>
            </memberExpression>
          </newExpression>
        </leftHandSideExpression>
      </postfixExpression>
    </unaryExpression>

I need to find the URL. I do it so.

//LITERAL[contains(@tokenValue, 'http://')]

How to use a regular expression to find url?

(http://|https://|ftp://)([a-z0-9]{1})((\.[a-z0-9-])|([a-z0-9-]))*\.([a-z]{2,4})(\/?)
kjhughes
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If your XPath engine supports XPath 2.0, use fn:matches which equivalents fn:contains for regular expressions. With XPath 1.0, there is no support for regular expressions.

//LITERAL[fn:matches(@tokenValue, '(http://|https://|ftp://)([a-z0-9]{1})((\.[a-z0-9-])|([a-z0-9-]))*\.([a-z]{2,4})(/?)')]

Will return all <LITERAL/>-tags having an @tokenValue-tag matching your regular expression.

There is some problem in your expression, you don't have to (and may not) escape the / in the last match group. I fixed that in my query. Why are you using the last two match groups anyway?

Jens Erat
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  • Regular expression found ready. Unfortunately the patch 2.0 is not supported, then will have to look for the links so `//LITERAL[contains(@tokenValue, 'http://a')]` `//LITERAL[contains(@tokenValue, 'http://b')]` `//LITERAL[contains(@tokenValue, 'http://c')]` etc. Tnank You – Vladimir Jan 23 '13 at 20:16