Using wildcards for xpath query in the hpple library for iOS

Question

I am using the hpple library to parse an html document. The document looks something like

<a class="title threadtitle_unread">Promo - 20 Apr 2014</a>
<a class="title">                   Promo - 19 Apr 2014</a>
<a class="title unread">            Promo - 18 Apr 2014</a>
<a class="title special">           Promo - 17 Apr 2014</a>
<a class="title threadtitle_unread">Promo - 16 Apr 2014</a>

I want to retrieve all these nodes using an xpath query. So, I try to do something like

TFHpple *parser = [TFHpple hppleWithHTMLData:htmlData];
NSString *xpathQueryString = @"//a[@class='title']";
NSArray *tutorialsNodes = [tutorialsParser searchWithXPathQuery:xpathQueryString];

But this understandably returns me only one node which is

<a class="title">                   Promo - 19 Apr 2014</a>

Can I form an xpath search query with wildcards so it returns me all these nodes? I tried to form the search query as

NSString *xpathQueryString = @"//a[@class='title']"; 

but this did not help.

Can I achieve this using hpple? If not, what are my other options?

Thanks

Answer 1

Another possible way is using starts-with() function :

//a[starts-with(@class,'title')]

Answer 2

you should use the contains function. e.g.

//a[@class[contains(., 'title')]]