John,
On windows the query has to be in double quotes and the "value" in
single quotes.
i.e.
xindice xpath_query -c /db/stafflist -q "//person[lname='Smith']"
Mark
John A Smith wrote:
> Hi
>
> Were running Xindice 1.0 (Birthday) with j2dk1.4.0 on Win2k SP2
>
> Create a collection say /db/stafflist and add am XML document like:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <addressbook>
> <person>
> <fname>Homer</fname>
> <lname>Simpson</lname>
> <phone type="work" >123-456-7890</phone>
> <phone type="home" >234-567-8901</phone>
> <phone type="cell" >456-789-0123</phone>
> <email type="home" >[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
> <email type="work" >[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
> <address type="home">1234 W. Springfield</address>
> <address type="work" >34 N. Atom Way</address>
> </person>
> <person>
> ...
>
> ...
> </person>
> </addressbook>
>
> Now issuing the query:
>
> xindice xpath_query -c /db/stafflist -q //person/email
>
> returns all email addresses fine, but
>
> xindice xpath_query -c /db/stafflist -q //person[lname="Smith"]
>
> returns nothing.
>
> I've tried changing/playing around with the quoting etc. but cannot get
> xpath queries that reference element or attribute values return anything.
>
> Help appreciated.
>
> John
>
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