how to combine values in XPath

Question

How to combine values (strings) in XPath? Say we've got something like this:

<entry>
  <x>value1</x>
  <y>value2</y>
</entry>

How would I accomplish entry/value1 + entry/value2 I'm looking for the substitue of this in PHP:

$result = $value1 . $value2

Also, is it possible to combine with a predefined string that's not from the XML? Like:

$result = 'prefix' . $value1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ezkl · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-01 21:46:08Z

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XPath's concat function may prove useful: concat('prefix',/entry/x,/entry/y)

answered Aug 1, 2011 at 21:46

ezkl

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