[lxml-dev] matches()

[Ian Bicking]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Using lxml trunk:
>    doc.xpath('descendant-or-self::*[starts-with(lower-case(@href), 
> "javascript:")]')

Well, maybe this one doesn't work either (returns 1/0).  Now I'm just 
confused.

> works, but:
> 
>    doc.xpath('descendant-or-self::*[matches(@href, "^javascript:", "i")]')
> 
> Returns ["i"].  This does not seem right...?


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