XQuery Expression in Soapui

Question

I am trying to write an XQuery in SOAPUI to validate an XML response. What I want to do is use a "where" to see if something equals something else with a wildcard. Basically like this.

<Result>
{
for $x in //ns3:Building
where $x/ns3:BuildingNumber/text()='JJJ*'     <--- This is my problem
return <Value>{$x/ns3:BuildingNumber/text()}</Value>
}
</Result>

I have taken out the namespaces for simplicity but I'm sure all of it works.

When I replace the where with something literal like the following, it works:

where $x/ns3:BuildingNumber/text()=JJJ1245

I need some kind of wildcard though but I'm not sure how or if it's done in this instance. All missions that start with JJJ. I have tried Regex and others like this but none work:

'JJJ*' '^JJJ.' 'JJJ.*'

Answer 1

Use matches() for regex:

where matches($x/ns3:BuildingNumber, '^JJJ.*')

Also, be careful with text() - usually you want string() . This article offers a very good explanation.