> Firstly, how do you do an xpath search on just an
> element?
> 
> <People>
>  <Person id="282">
>    <FirstName>Jenny<FirstName/>
>    <LastName>Ynnej<LastName/>
>    <Age>1009<Age/>
>    <PhoneNumber>777 777 7777</PhoneNumber>
>  </Person>
>  <Person id="289">
>  ...
>  ...
> </People>

If you want to search relative to the <Person> Element, just leave out the
initial "/" (which means start with the document) and do something like: 

personElement.selectNodes("FirstName")

Leaving out the initial slash makes the search relative to the element you
invoke selectNodes on.

-- Steen




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