That did the trick - thanks! Matthew Foemmel ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Peeter Piegaze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/25/2005 04:18:42 PM: > The XPath function you are looking for is element(). For example, > > //element(*, nt:file) > > will find all the nodes in the workspace of primary type nt:file, > including nodes > whose primary node type is a *subtype* of nt:file. > > -Peeter > > On 8/25/05, Matthew P Foemmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was wondering if there was an easy way to search a repository for all > > nodes of a specific type, including subtypes? For example, the xpath > > query: > > > > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]:primaryType='my:nodeType'] > > > > will match all nodes with the exact type 'my:nodetype', but not nodes with > > types that inherit from it. I guess what I'd like to see is an "is" > > function that works like the "instanceof" function in Java: > > > > //*[is(my:nodeType)] > > > > I've read the JSR-170 spec and checked out some of the xpath query code, > > but couldn't find support for something like this. I feel like I'm missing > > something obvious though... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matthew Foemmel > > ThoughtWorks, Inc. > >