In the javadocs, the Node method, selectNodes, says this:
public List selectNodes(String xpathExpression)
selectNodes evaluates an XPath expression and returns the result as a
List of Node instances or String instances depending on the XPath
expression.
What is the discerning factor on whether a list of Nodes or Strings gets
returned? I couldn't easily find anything in the xml spec stating what the
difference was. In my application, I have a xpathExpression that would
select a single node, or using predicates, select a list. Also, would this
method every return the empty list for other than an xpathExpression that
didn't match any nodes in the document?
Thanx
steve
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