Hi, On 2/2/06, Michael Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to build an xpath query which returns all nodes of a particular > (well known) type where the property "value" of child node "name" has > the value "test".
The normal XPath query for this would be something like this: //element(*,'type')[name/@value='test'] Unfortunately Jackrabbit doesn't support the child node axis in XPath predicates (see JCR-247), which means that the above query will not work. I can't think of a simple workaround to this issue, so my solution would be to run a query like //[EMAIL PROTECTED]'test'] and post-process the results with: while (iterator.hasNext()) { Node node = (Node) iterator.next(); Node parent = node.getParent(); if (parent.getPrimaryNodeType().isNodeType("type")) { // process parent node } } Another solution would be to redesign the node type structure to match the limitations of the Jackrabbit query capabilities. BR, Jukka Zitting -- Yukatan - http://yukatan.fi/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software craftmanship, JCR consulting, and Java development