[lxml-dev] case-insensitive xpath search

[Stefan Behnel]

Paul Eipper wrote:
> I wonder if this is the right place to ask, but I am trying to run a
> case-insensitive search on a XML using lxml XPath.
> 
> This is the current search (not case-insensitive):
> 
> keyword = "what to find"
> o.xpath( '//*[ contains( @*, "%s" ) ]' % keyword )
> 
> how could I make that be a case-insensitive search ?

It will be easy to do in lxml 1.3, as it will support regexps.

http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/xpathxslt.html#the-xpath-class
http://www.exslt.org/regexp/index.html

If you don't want to wait: have you tried if the translate() function from
XSLT is available?

Stefan