Newbie XPath attribute value question

[Nik]

Hello,

I have XML-documents which are quite attribute-heavy and would like
to search all attribute values for match with a certain string, no
matter in what element or attribute they are found. What would the
syntax be?

Thanks in advance,
-Nik

 

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Nik wrote in comp.text.xml:

I have XML-documents which are quite attribute-heavy and would like
to search all attribute values for match with a certain string, no
matter in what element or attribute they are found. What would the
syntax be?

//@*[. = 'text-you-are-looking-for']

Or instead of using = e.g. contains(...) depending on what you are
looking for.