The reason I am trying to do the wildcard search is because I have nodes
of the same name at different levels and I need them all. So giving a
specific path wouldn't give me all of the nodes I need.
That's not what your select says, the * wildcard only selectes children.
/*/item = select all "item" nodes which are one level below the root
(grandchildren of the context node).
//item = select all "item" nodes on any level of the document (all
descendants of the context node).
Yes * and / are mathematical operators but in the context of a xpath
search they are used as you expect if you were doing a regex search...
which also supports the * and /
If you read the W3C spec, they specifically mention this ambiguity and
the problems that can arise. It is a known issue with wildcards in XPath,
and you should not expect it to behave the same way as any particular
implementation of RegEx.
What I am attempting to do is get all the node nodes by doing
r = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(myXML,"/*/node");
What you want is:
r = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(myXML,"//node");
ryanm
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