RE: [libxml++] Node::find( nonexistent_xpath )

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: andy glew amd com [mailto:andy glew amd com]  
> Q: what should Node::find( nonexistent_xpath )
> return if it is called with an xpath that does not exist?
> 
> libxml2 returns 0 xmlXPathEval ...
> which is the "inside" of Node::find(),
> but Node::find() core dumps.

That's not good.

> I.e. libxml2 is better behaved that libxmlpp::find()
> in this regard.
> 
> I strongly suspect that libxmlpp should return an empty set.

I guess it should throw an expection. A patch would be very welcome.

Murray Cumming
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