If you really wanted to see if "facet" was one of the class names instead of say "facetx" then converting to string and using contains will break.
<div class="facetx foo"/> //div[contains(@class/string(), "facet")] == TRUE wheras this should do what you want //div[@class = "facet"] ( providing of course the xhtml schema is in scope). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Lee Lead Engineer MarkLogic Corporation [email protected] Phone: +1 812-482-5224 Cell: +1 812-630-7622 www.marklogic.com<http://www.marklogic.com/> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:24 PM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] problem interpreting an XPath expression? right, forcing the string() does the trick. thanks, that takes away another excuse not to write these xray tests! ;-) cheers, Jakob. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Michael Blakeley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Yes, or explicitly take the string value: xdmp:describe( <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>{ attribute class { 'foo bar' } }</div>/@class/string()) => "foo bar" So //div[contains(@class/string(), "facet")] should work. -- Mike On 27 Feb 2013, at 14:36 , Jakob Fix <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Ah ha! So if I'd be able to pretend the XHTML is"just XML", then this > should/could be considered/casted as a string? > > cheers, > Jakob. > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Michael Blakeley > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > It's because @class in xhtml is NMTOKENS, tokenized by whitespace. So > atomization yields (xs:NMTOKEN('mainPane', xs:NMTOKEN('clearfix')) rather > than xs:string('mainPane clearfix'). > > xdmp:describe( > <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>{ > attribute class { 'foo bar' } }</div>/@class/data(.)) > => > (xs:NMTOKEN("foo"), xs:NMTOKEN("bar")) > > -- Mike > > On 27 Feb 2013, at 13:07 , Jakob Fix > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am probably daft here, but I'm getting an error for the following > > expression which I'm trying to apply to your typical Bootstrap-based HTML > > page: > > > > //div[contains(@class, "facet")] > > > > The error I'm getting is the following: > > > > [1.0-ml] XDMP-ARGTYPE: (err:XPTY0004) fn:contains(attribute{fn:QName("", > > "class")}{"mainPane clearfix"}, "facet") -- arg1 is not of type xs:string? > > > > This expression works elsewhere, but MarkLogic returns this error. I'm > > stumped ... Oh, I've upgraded to 6.0-2.3. Thanks as ever! > > > > cheers, > > Jakob. > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
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