XPath using starts-with function

Question

I'm writing Java on Android to retrieve data from XML file, but I've got a problem. Consider this XML:

<ITEM>
   <REVENUE_YEAR>2554-02</REVENUE_YEAR>
   <REGION>Central</REGION>
</ITEM>
<ITEM>
  <REVENUE_YEAR>2552-02</REVENUE_YEAR>
  <REGION>Central</REGION>
</ITEM>
<ITEM>
  <REVENUE_YEAR>2552-03</REVENUE_YEAR>
  <REGION>Central</REGION>
</ITEM>

How can I get all elements in years that start-with 2552. I tried:

//REVENUE_YEAR[starts-with(.,'2552')]/text()

It works, but when I tried:

//REVENUE_YEAR[starts-with(.,'2552')]/REGION/text() 

it doesn't work.

Solution 1

Use:

//REVENUE_YEAR[starts-with(.,'2552')]/../REGION/text() 

Solution 2

Try this

//ITEM/*[starts-with(text(),'2552')]/following-sibling::*

Comments

[Mogsdad]

An answer with explanation, like this is better (and gets more votes) than a simple "try this" like that.