Hi Roy I see, thanks for the pointer. I didn't know that was allowed in XPath.
Glad you got a solution. I'm almost certain that the following would also work: /jcr:root/content/site//element(*,cq:PageContent)/parsys/some-component for your case. Regards Julian On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Roy Teeuwen <r...@teeuwen.be> wrote: > Hey Julian, > > This is standard XPath and worked in JCR 2, for example if you look at these > samples provided by microsoft: > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256086(v=vs.110).aspx > <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256086(v=vs.110).aspx> > book[excerpt] : All <book> elements that contain at least one <excerpt> > element child. > > A real life used example: > /jcr:root/content/site//element(*,cq:PageContent)[parsys/some-component] to > select pages with a specific component in the parsys > But they gave me a workable solution in the oak-dev channel, although it > should still work in the old way according to xpath :) > > The solution they provided: something like > /jcr:root/content/site//element(*,cq:PageContent)[parsys/some-component/@jcr:primaryType] > > Greetings, > Roy > >> On 11 Oct 2016, at 11:54, Julian Sedding <jsedd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Not sure why this worked in JR2 (and whether that was a bug or a feature). >> >> IMO you need to test for /jcr:root//*[fn:name() = 'test'] (or if there >> are no other conditions simply /jcr:root//test). >> >> Regards >> Julian >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Roy Teeuwen <r...@teeuwen.be> wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I’m not really getting a reply in the oak-dev channel, so I might as well >>> also try here because I’m trying it in a sling application :) >>> >>> When doing the following XPath query in JCR 2, it would select me all the >>> nodes that has a subnode named test. But since upgrading to oak, this query >>> does not work anymore. Is there a reason this stopped working or a way to >>> make it work again >>> >>> Some query example: >>> /jcr:root//*[test] or >>> /jcr:root/content/site//element(*,nt:unstructured)[@jcr:createdBy='admin' >>> and test] >>> >>> Greetings, >>> Roy >
