Question

I have an xml file containing a lists of nodes with a "date" attribute, storing a date:

<root>
    <entry date="2011-12-04" />
    <entry date="2011-11-29" />
</root>

Is it possible using a xPath query to retrive all the nodes that have the month of the "date" attribute set to november?
I read on the web (for example here) that this kind of functions exists in the xPath language, but I am not able to figure how to use them.
I should using this in a java application.

Answer 1

I haven’t used the date functions, but you could use substring to extract the month and test that value, for example:

'//entry[substring(@date,6,2)="11"]'

returns just

<entry date="2011-11-29" />