I'm running Xindice 1.0 on a Red Hat Linux box, using a Bash
shell. This is just a note that might help folks with a similar setup
avoid wasting time trying to discover why some commandline XPath
queries don't work. When you give a query like this:
xindice xpath -c /db/pebbles -q /[EMAIL PROTECTED]"hard"]
which is almost identical to Example 5.1 in the commandline tools
reference doc, you might find Xindice returns nothing at all. This is
because you need to escape the quote marks, like so:
xindice xpath -c /db/pebbles -q /[EMAIL PROTECTED]"hard\"]
Similarly, if your XPath includes a function you must escape the
parentheses, eg:
xindice xpath -c /db/pebbles -q /rock[position\(\)=1]
I appreciate this is basic Unix stuff, but when you're focusing on
Xindice it's easy to forget, and the documentation doesn't remind you,
and neither the server nor the shell will return an error message in
response to the command. I wasted a good while before smacking myself
upside the head when I realised what was wrong ;-)
Paul.
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Paul Caton
Electronic Publications Editor
Women Writers Project
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: (401) 863-3619
address: Box 1841, Brown University, Providence RI 02912
