Question

I’m trying to locate only children that begin with the text “EPCF” from my XML.

Here is the code I have today:

$(xml).find('Cat[name="' + catname + '"]').children("EPCF_1_1").each(function() {

This does indeed return only EPCF_1_1

My question is how do I return anything that begins with EPCF

I have tried

$(xml).find('Cat[name="' + catname + '"]').children().filter(':contains(EPCF)').each(function() {

with no luck and

$(xml).find('Cat[name="' + catname + '"]').children().filter(':contains("EPCF")').each(function() {

also with no luck – neither return errors.

Answer 1

http://api.jquery.com/attribute-starts-with-selector/

$(xml).find('Cat[name^="' + catname + '"]')...