On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 21:28, James Strachan wrote:
> The matches() method in dom4j used to just mean 'return true if the XPath
> expression finds *anything*'. Its now changed its semantics (more on this
> later). You can still use the old semantics via the selectSingleNode()
> method instead.
...
> The matches() method now means, does the XPath expression return myself in
> the result set.
might i suggest the javadocs need updating then? i see what threw me off
now that i went back and poked around. they currently state:
"matches returns true if evaluating the given XPath expression on this
node returns true or a non-empty node set. So calling this method is
equivalent to calling <xsl:if test="xpathExpression"/> in XSLT."
> So the document node isn't a title element, so
>
> document.matches( "/html/head/title" )
>
> will no longer return true.
<xsl:if test="/html/head/title"/> will return true on any valid xhtml
document, while document.matches("/html/head/title") returns false as
you said.
- donald
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