Edwin,
I do this kind of stuff all the time and it works.
As a matter of fact I exclusively use subelement selections
instead of attributes because I read somewhere, who knows
where, that it is faster (can anyone confirm this?).
Soo...can you post your java method, maybe I can try
running it over here?
It should work!
-jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Bulter, Edwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:19 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [dom4j-user] XPATH expression problem: Am I trying to use an
unimplemented feature?
I am using the xpath-syntax for filtering an XML-document and pass the
result through.
To filter the nodes I use the method "public List selectNodes(String
xpathExpression)" on my document.
Example :
<AAA>
<BBB A="1">
<C>a</C>
</BBB>
<BBB A="2">
<C>b</C>
</BBB>
<BBB A="3">
<C>c</C>
</BBB>
</AAA>
Selecting an element on attribute-values works fine, i.e.:
expression:
/AAA/BBB[@A='2']
result:
<BBB A="2">
<C>b</C>
</BBB>
Selecting an element on the element-text of an inner-element is a problem,
i.e.:
expression:
/AAA/BBB[C='b']
result:
<BBB A="1">
<C>a</C>
</BBB>
<BBB A="2">
<C>b</C>
</BBB>
<BBB A="3">
<C>c</C>
</BBB>
In this last case I would expect only the second BBB-element as the result.
I used xpath-expressions like this before in XSL-documents which worked
fine.
Why doesn't it with DOM4J?
Regards,
Edwin
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