matches()

Using lxml trunk:
   doc.xpath('descendant-or-self::*[starts-with(lower-case(@href), 
"javascript:")]')

works, but:

   doc.xpath('descendant-or-self::*[matches(@href, "^javascript:", "i")]')

Returns ["i"].  This does not seem right...?


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