On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 16:32 -0700, Yong Chen (yongche) wrote:

> Say I have an xml tree:
> 
> 
>            A
> 
>        B         C
> 
>      D   E
> 
[..]

> Now say I have xpath "/A/B", it selects node "B". When I return the
> result, should I return B node only, or I should return B and also its
> child (D and E)?

You return the whole subtree.

Assuming "you" is an XPath implementation.

This list is really for the Gnome XML library, which already implements
XPath.

Liam


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