No, not exactly. From [1], the XY problem is "you are trying to solve problem X, and you think solution Y would work, but instead of asking about X when you run into trouble, you ask about Y."
So person is trying to solve X, but asks
"How do you do Y?"
"Why are you trying to do Y?"
"Well, I want X and Y seems to be the solution"
"No, to solve X you want to do Z."
In this case the asker nicely gave their X as part of the question, but the bulk of the question was still about trying to move forward on their mistaken "solution" Y.
They are different problems. Stripping the final character from "3.14159" does not produce the same result as rounding to 3.1416.
The first action concerns a syntactic property of PI's decimal representation while the second action concerns a semantic property of PI's value.
A related example given on https://xyproblem.info is a user asking (Y) how to extract the final 3 characters of a filename string when he probably intends to ask (X) how to retrieve a filename's extension.
But they still say. "I'm trying to do X. To do this, I'm doing this complicated Y. How come Y doesn't work?"
This is still XY because they're asking about Y. But in the bad cases, they'd only mention the Y part, and omit that they're trying to do X.