Thank you very much, Wendell, for the prompt reply! Yes, both options 
work in my case.


On 05-03-22 12:49, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Wolfhart --
>
> Try this -- //notion[*[contains(.,'string')]]
>
> It returns all notionB elements with any children containing 'string'.
>
> More concisely, //notion[contains(.,'string')] returns all notions 
> containing 'string' - which is the same thing if notions contain only 
> elements, not text nodes.
>
> XPath 1.0 is still in scope for this list!
>
> Enjoy, Wendell
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 10:44 AM Wolfhart Totschnig 
> wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     My question is about XPath 1.0, not XSL, but I hope that I may still
>     pose it here. The problem is, precisely, that I cannot use XSL
>     because I
>     am in a PHP context, using DOM to perform XPath queries on an XML
>     document.
>
>     The situation is the following: I have <notion> elements that contain
>     one <name> element and zero or more <translation> elements. I want to
>     select them according to whether any of these child elements
>     contains a
>     certain string. I was hoping that it would be as easy as this:
>
>     //notion[contains(*, "string")]
>
>     But then I realized that the contains() function evaluates only the
>     first node of the set of child elements. So how can I do what I
>     want to
>     do? Since I am using DOM, I have to remain within XPath 1.0.
>
>     Thanks in advance for your help!
>     Wolfhart
>
>
>
>
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