# Searching PARTIAL attribute value of XML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/searching-partial-attribute-value-of-xml/288214>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 12, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/searching-partial-attribute-value-of-xml/288214 "2009-05-12T21:03:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/searching-partial-attribute-value-of-xml/288214/1 "2009-05-12T21:03:09Z")

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I have gone thru the Kirupa’s tutorial “[COLOR=#003366] **Using** XML in Flash CS3/AS3[/COLOR]”, and it helped a lot in my project. Now, I have a question in XML searching. If an attribute’s value is say **title=“kirupa tutorial”** and a user wanted to search only the word “kirupa”, then how can i get this node of xml, which title is “kirupa tutorial”…

@[COLOR=#000050]title[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]==[/COLOR] [COLOR=#666666]“kirupa” only works when the whole word matches the value of “title” attribute, but i want to search a partial word.[/COLOR]  
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