Catie, The post you quote is not relevant to your query. That post has to do with trying to retrieve *only* an attribute value -- Xindice/xmldb requires that the containing element of that attribute be returned.
I think your XPath query that isn't quite right. This works for me (using Xalan outside Xindice) on your document: '/session/header[isModified="false"]' The way I read this query is "retrieve the header children of the session root element which have isModified elements whose string value is 'false'." The part before the left square bracket is what is to be retrieved, and you can think of the left square bracket as meaning 'such that' and carrying the node context of the expression preceding. Thus expr1 [expr2] means retrieve all nodes matching expr1 such that expr2 is true, with expr2 evaluated in the context of each node selected by expr1. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kanarinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 8:46 AM Subject: XPath details [Repeat Posting] > Hi all, > > Related to this post -- does this mean that I cannot write an XPath > query that selects based on the value of an element? > For example (see the below document), say I want to select the <header> > element only when the value of <isModified> is false. > > It seems that I cannot do this - e.g. selecting > "/session/header[isModified='false']" yields no result on the below > document because it seems that "isModified=" will always compare against > the entire isMOdified document whose value in this case is: > > <isModified xmlns:src="http://xml.apache.org/xindice/Query"; > src:col="/db/catie_3 > 3eecca6-6921-44d2-a191-861a77bc5d82/session_xml" > src:key="841c44e9-54b9-4204-b0d > 2-f7bf0ed81426">false</isModified> >
