Re: [xml] XPath Location Paths

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:14:50PM +0100, Richard Jinks wrote:
> If I understand the spec correctly, I'd think that as el1 is the root node,
> "name(el1)" should return "el1" and "name(el2)" should return an empty
> string, i.e. it assumes that the context node is the first child of the root
> node, and not the root node itself.
>
> I've tested this with a fresh install of libxml2.2-4-19 just to make sure
> that none of my previous dips into the XPath source code have messed
> anything up.

  The problem is as you noted how the current node is being initialized.
XPath was not designed to be used in isolation, and does not say anything
about this. Solution: initialize the context node if you want to use
the XPath primitives directly.

Daniel

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