I've made various attempts to be more specific in the XPath and nothing works. I've tried the following:
<cinclude:include xmlns:cinclude="http://apache.org/cocoon/include/1.0"; src="http://localhost/something.xml";
select="//*[local-name()='paragraph[2]']/."/>
local-name() returns the name of the element without the namespace prefix. You added a predicate test, but added it to the compare string for the local-name(). Move it to _after_ the original close bracket, like:
select="//*[local-name()='paragraph'][2]"
(you can drop the /. at the end)
This selects _every_ second paragraph within any parent that occurs.
<cinclude:include xmlns:cinclude="http://apache.org/cocoon/include/1.0"; src="http://localhost/something.xml";
select="//*[local-name()='page']/paragraph[2]"/>
This, for starters, requires that paragraph has element 'page' as parent. Moreover, it looks for 'paragraph' elements without namespace.
<cinclude:include xmlns:cinclude="http://apache.org/cocoon/include/1.0"; src="http://localhost/something.xml";
select="//*[local-name()='page']/paragraph[2]/."/>
Does the same as previous..
<cinclude:include xmlns:cinclude="http://apache.org/cocoon/include/1.0"; src="http://localhost/something.xml";
select="//*[local-name()='page/paragraph[2]']/."/>
Again, you added the predicates to the compare string, that won't work
<cinclude:include xmlns:cinclude="http://apache.org/cocoon/include/1.0"; src="http://localhost/something.xml";
select="//*[local-name()='page']/paragraph/[2]"/>
Illegal XPath. You can't specify a predicated directly after a /. Add at least one dot between, but it is easier just to drop the /.. :-)
In short, you are looking for either:
//*[local-name()='paragraph'][2]
or
//*[local-name()='page']/*[local-name()='paragraph'][2]
Two additional notes:
* //paragraph[2] is not the same as (//paragraph)[2]
* Specify the namespace of paragraph in you XML that contains the cincludes and use the prefix in the select expressions. Matching through local-name() is not a good method.
Cheers, Geert
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