Carsten,
As for every axis, node test should be specified:
- "parent::*"
- "ancestor::*"
- "descendant::somenodename"
Hope this'll help,
Sergey
2007/8/15, Carsten Schlipf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hello,
>
> on the JXPath user's guide I have read that the axes "parent::" and
> "ancestor::" may be used. However in my code I get JXPathExceptions:
>
> JXPathContext context = JXPathContext.newContext(object);
> context.getValue("ancestor::");
>
> The call to getValue(String) throws the JXPathException with the
> following message:
>
> Invalid XPath: 'ancestor::'. Syntax error after: 'a'.
>
> A similar exception is thrown for 'descendant::' and 'parent::'. Am I
> missing something? Do I have to set a special mode or register the
> DescendantContext, AncestorContext and ParentContext classes as
> functions somehow? I tried the later but didn't succeed.
>
> Thank you very much for help!
>
> Carsten
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