Ruud,
I recently made some changes in JXPath that are supposed to make this
issue go away. When you have a chance, could you try and let me know?
Thanks,
- Dmitri
--- Ruud Diterwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm experiencing problems with variables that have been assigned DOM
> nodes. In particular, the JXPathContext.getValue method ends up
> calling
> Element.toString, which does not result in the value of a DOM node
> according to the XPath spec.
>
> public void testJXPathDOMVariable() throws Exception {
>
> // read book xml
> String xmlString = "<book>This is my book</book>";
> Document doc =
> DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(new
> ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes()));
> Element book = doc.getDocumentElement();
>
> // evaluate the value of book directly
> JXPathContext context = JXPathContext.newContext(book);
> String value = (String) context.getValue(".",
> String.class);
> System.out.println("value: " + value);
>
> // evaluate the value of book using a variable
> Variables variables = context.getVariables();
> variables.declareVariable("i", book);
> value = (String) context.getValue("$i", String.class);
> System.out.println("value: " + value);
>
> // evaluate the value of book using a variable, second
> attempt
> variables.declareVariable("i", new DOMNodePointer(book,
> Locale.getDefault()));
> value = (String) context.getValue("$i", String.class);
> System.out.println("value: " + value);
> }
>
> result:
>
> value: This is my book
> value: [book: null]
> value:
>
> I expected the second value to be 'This is my book' as well. The
> value
> '[book: null]' is produced by Xerces' DOM.toString method. What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> Ruud Diterwich
>
>
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