Hi, I have a XML file (test.xml) as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xml> <table> <rec id="1"> <para type="error" position="1"/> <para type="error" position="2"/> <para type="error" position="3"/> </rec> <rec id="2"> <para type="warning" position="1"/> <para type="warning" position="2"/> <para type="warning" position="3"/> </rec> <rec id="3"> <para type="info" position="1"/> <para type="info" position="2"/> <para type="info" position="3"/> </rec> </table> </xml> Appling command line "xmllint.exe --xpath /descendant::node()/rec/child::node()[1] test.xml", the output are several empty lines. If I change the XPath expression to /descendant::node()/rec/child::*[1] or /descendant::node()/rec/para[1], the output would be: <para type="error" position="1"/><para type="warning" position="1"/><para type="info" position="1"/> According to the XPath spec (V2.0 section 3.2.3 Unabbreviated Syntax) : child::node() selects all the children of the context node. Note that no attribute nodes are returned, because attributes are not children. Shouldn’t it have the same output as /descendant::node()/rec/child::*[1] and /descendant::node()/rec/para[1]? As for the tools that I used: (Win32 version from http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html) libxml2-2.7.8.win32 (depends on iconv-1.9.2.win32 and zlib-1.2.5.win32). A xmllint.exe tool has been included in the "bin" directory. Thanks for any comments on this... Ming
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