RE: Xalan Xpath Caching

[david_n_bertoni]

> Um, forgive me, but I'm a little dense when it comes to interpreting specification language
> like that, so I still can't quite tell the answer to my question...

The primary purpose of this mailing list is not to answer questions about XPath or XSLT, but to answer questions about using Xalan-C. Any good XPath/XSLT book can explain the concepts.

> Based on what you've said, and my example, if "B" is the context node, and I want to select
> a child called "3", do I use "B/3" in the xpath _expression_, or just "3"?

First of all, let's rename the element "3", since that's not a valid element name. The XPath _expression_ "B/C" is a relative XPath _expression_ that means "from the context node, find all the B element children, then, find all of the C element children of those B element children. The resulting node-set is all of the C elements that were found."

Dave