Unfortunately, I think this is a bug in the XMLBeans XPath engine.
What I can recommend is using Saxon (make sure it's 8.8) to execute
XPath to work around this.
Also, make sure to open a JIRA issue if you have an account or let me
know and I can open one for you.
Radu
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:40 +0000, Paul Hepworth wrote:
> Hi
>
> Hopefully someone can point me in the direction where I'm going wrong
> with this one:
>
> If I have the following XML:
> <a>
> <b>
> <c>val1</c>
> <d>
> <c>val2</c>
> </d>
> </b>
> <c>val3</c>
> </a>
>
> If I execute the following XQuery: .//b/c
> I would expect one result to come back, however, using xmlbeans 2.3,
> it seems to select the val2 c as well!?
>
> Here's a test class:
> public class TestSelectPath {
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> final XmlObject obj =
> XmlObject.Factory.parse("<a><b><c>val1</c><d><c>val2</c></d><c>val3</c></a>");
> final XmlCursor c = obj.newCursor();
> c.selectPath(".//b/c");
> System.out.println(c.getSelectionCount());
> c.dispose();
> }
> }
>
> As far as I'm aware, it should only return one result. If I add the a
> in and don't use the // (./a/b/c) then I get the correct result.
> However, this approach isn't workable in my application.
>
> I'm running java 1.4, with xmlbeans-qname-2.3.0.jar,
> xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar and stax-api-1.0.1.jar on my classpath.
>
> Can anyone help??
>
> Cheers
> Paul
>
>
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