XPath using starts-with function

Question

I m writing Java on Android to retrieve data from XML file  but I ve got a problem   Consider this XML    lt ITEM gt      lt REVENUE YEAR gt 2554-02 lt  REVENUE YEAR gt      lt REGION gt Central lt  REGION gt   lt  ITEM gt   lt ITEM gt     lt REVENUE YEAR gt 2552-02 lt  REVENUE YEAR gt     lt REGION gt Central lt  REGION gt   lt  ITEM gt   lt ITEM gt     lt REVENUE YEAR gt 2552-03 lt  REVENUE YEAR gt     lt REGION gt Central lt  REGION gt   lt  ITEM gt    How can I get all  elements in years that start-with 2552  I tried      REVENUE YEAR starts-with    2552    text     It works  but when I tried     REVENUE YEAR starts-with    2552    REGION text      it doesn t work

User · Answer

Use      ITEM starts-with REVENUE YEAR  2552    REGION   Note  Unless your host language can t handle element instance as result  do not use text nodes specially in mixed content data model  Do not start expressions with    operator when the schema is well known

User · Answer

Try this     ITEM   starts-with text    2552    following-sibling

User · Answer

Use      REVENUE YEAR starts-with    2552       REGION text

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