How do I do a regex search in Nokogiri for text that matches a certain beginning?

Question

Given:

require \'rubygems\'
require \'nokogiri\'
value = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(<<-HTML_END)
\"

  
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Answer 1

Nokogiri::XML::Node.send(:define_method, 'xpath_regex') { |*args|
  xpath = args[0]
  rgxp = /\/([a-z]+)\[@([a-z\-]+)~=\/(.*?)\/\]/
  xpath.gsub!(rgxp) { |s| m = s.match(rgxp); "/#{m[1]}[regex(.,'#{m[2]}','#{m[3]}')]" }
  self.xpath(xpath, Class.new {
    def regex node_set, attr, regex
      node_set.find_all { |node| node[attr] =~ /#{regex}/ }
    end
  }.new)
}

Usage:

divs = Nokogiri::HTML(page.root.to_html).
  xpath_regex("//div[@class~=/axtarget$/]//div[@class~=/^carbo/]")