Perhaps your difficulty is not with XPath, but rather with the command interpreter (bash?) on your system? Try surrounding your query with "single-quotes", i.e. make the command line query '/myroot/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"a"]' and see if the result becomes more meaningful.
Bill Stefan Jeglinski wrote: >>I think what you want is this: /myroot/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"a"] > > Yes, this is a variant I tried. xpath1.c sample code returns "Result > (0 nodes):" where as /myroot/myelement returns (as I would expect): > > Result (2 nodes): > = element node "myelement" > = element node "myelement" > > I have been interpreting the 0-node result as my mistake in syntax, > but based on another off-list reply, and yours, I have at least on > several occasions used the correct syntax. I hesitate to blame the > sample code though, as I am pretty green at this so far. > > >>here is a simple python program to play with: > > Thanks I will try this. > > > Stefan Jeglinski _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
