YQL How to use wildcard in XPath

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Published on 2010-03-31T22:23:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 5:23 UTC
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Hello,

I have a malformed page to scrape, and have had a hard time getting the correct XPath for YQL. I can scrape individual fields that I need using, for example:

//*[@id="cell_12345"]

But what I really need to do is return all elements who's ID begins with cell_. Something like:

//*[@id="cell_"*]

How do I do this?

Also, if anybody can point me to a good XPath reference it would be very helpful.

Thanks!

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