I want to find all the elements which there attributes start with x.
For example,
<a xt="1"> text1 </a>
<a xu="2"> text2 </a>
<a text1="3"> text3 </a>
The xpath would find the first two elements, because it contains attributes with it name is xt and xu, respectively. text1 attribute doesn't start with x, and for that I will not get it.
I try with start-with() function, but as I understood it find the values, and not attributes.
try
@*[starts-with(name(), 'x')]
I would use:
//*[@*[starts-with(local-name(),'x')]]
Similar to the other answer, but uses local-name() instead. This will only check the attribute name and not the namespace prefix.
For example, if you use local-name() the following will also be matched because the prefix starts with x...
<a xns:text1="3" xmlns:xns="xns"> text3 </a>
If you use local-name(), it will not match because the local name of xns:text1 is text1.
