XPath to Select Nodes Starting with a Certain Value

Question

Given the XML structure

<Doc>
   <Other />
   <Q1 />
   <Q2 />
</Doc>

How can I select only nodes that begin with a "Q", e.g. /Doc/Q1 and /Doc/Q2?

It seems like this can be done with starts-with, but I have only found examples that apply starts-with to the value of the node

penartur · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-18 00:38:11Z

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/Doc/*[starts-with(name(), 'Q')]

answered Feb 18, 2012 at 0:38

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note that you can use local-name() to omit namespaces in complex XML