Your first xpath '/*/person' returns all person elements.
Note: Starting an XPath expression with '/' will disregard the current
context and will start evaluating the expression from the root
element.
So your second xpath '/*/name/text()' would have returned a value if
your document had the following structure:
<db>
<name>Jack</name>
<name>Barbara</name>
</db>
To fix this use a relative XPath expression: 'name/text()'
String name(Element e) {
XPath nameXPath = DocumentHelper.createXPath("name/text()");
return nameXPath.valueOf(e); // valueInside() would have been a nicer name
}
Regards,
Edwin
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