Hi Marcel,

I appreciate your prompt response.  I tried the XPath as you provided
but it results in an exception :

javax.jcr.query.InvalidQueryException: Only attribute axis is allowed
in predicate

Currently I am not using 1.4, is this issue resolved in 1.4?

On Jan 16, 2008 10:14 AM, Marcel Reutegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> Sean Callan wrote:
> > Hi Guys, I've got a question about the XPath within JackRabbit.
> >
> > I'm currently using this XPath which successfully returns a node,
> > `//webfmis:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:general='true']` , I'd like to be able to
> > return the parent node but I'm having absolutely no success in
> > incorporating `parent::` or `/..`.
>
> jackrabbit does not support the parent axis in queries, which means it should
> actually throw an exception in that case.
>
> > When I use `parent::` for instance there are no errors but no node is
> > returned.  I've viewed the repository with JCR Web Explorer and I have
> > confirmed it does in fact go  webfmis:document -> webfmis:properties
> > -> webfmis:role -> @webfmis:general.
> >
> > I'm looking to return the webfmis:document.  Any idea what I'm missing here?
>
> //*[webfmis:role/@webfmis:general='true']
>
> will work.
>
> regards
>   marcel
>

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