RE: [libxml++] Patch for Node::find( nonexistent_xpath ) to retur n empty NodeSe t

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Stefan Seefeld [mailto:seefeld sympatico ca] 
> Sent: Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2003 15:12
> To: libxmlplusplus-general lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [libxml++] Patch for Node::find( 
> nonexistent_xpath ) to retur n empty NodeSe t
> 
> 
> Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> 
> >>Long term the right way is to do what Stefan Seefeld suggested,
> >>returning an XPathResult that unifies NodeSets and other 
> >>xpath return types.  I'm not bothering to do that yet,
> >>since I have not decided whether to use libxml++ 
> >>or Xerces or xml4c, the IBM C++ binding.
> > 
> > 
> > Someone should look at Java's Xerces API to see what that 
> does. I think it's
> > a fairly well-thought-out interpretation of the XML specs. 
> Your fix is fine
> > in the meantime.
> 
> xerces doesn't have an API for xpaths as far as I can see.

I'm fairly sure that I've seen it. Maybe it's only in the Java version. The
docs are online.

Murray Cumming
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