Hussein,
You are right, xpath('icons/nice.gif') refers to a node which does not
exist in my document while xpath("'icons/nice.gif'") refers to a string
which is what I want.
Thanks again,
Lionel Barth
Hussein Shafie a ecrit le 13/09/06 11:31:
> Lionel Barth wrote:
>
>> concatenate("url('", xpath('icons/nice.gif'), "')") gives a broken
>> picture icon while
>> concatenate("url('",
>> xpath("resolve-uri('icons/nice.gif',$styleSheetURL)"), "')") works fine.
>>
>
> Well, I've retested this because I suspected you found a bug in
> concatenate(). This was not the case:
>
> * Simple test #1: concatenate("url('", xpath('icons/nice.gif'), "')")
> indeed gives a broken picture icon.
>
> * Simple test #2: concatenate("url('", xpath("'icons/nice.gif'"), "')")
> works fine.
>
> Reason: icons/nice.gif is not a valid XPath expression
> 'icons/nice.gif' is a valid XPath expression (a string literal).
>
> The syntax of xpath() is
> xpath(quoted_CSS_string_which_contains_an_XPath_expression).
>
> Ideally, it should be xpath(XPath_expression), because all these quotes
> are misleading.
>
>
