Re: [xml] xpath problem

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

Thanks for explanation!!! It really looked strange :)

Aleksey.

>  Conclusion: it's not a bug !
>
>  [(ancestor::node() = /EndUsers[1]/child::EndUser[ Id='aaa'])]
> does a comparison between nodesets, defined at
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#booleans
>
> "If both objects to be compared are node-sets, then the comparison
> will be true if and only if there is a node in the first node-set and
> a node in the second node-set such that the result of performing the
> comparison on the string-values of the two nodes is true."
>
>  in the case of b.xml the string-value of EndUsers and EndUser
> are the same (because there is no \n to differenciate them), so 
> EndUsers matches the criteria and the EndUser child is selected in the
> resutling node-list.
>
>  The bug is in the expression given, it does *not* select all childs
> of the EndUser node !
>
>   NOTABUG, CLOSED
>
>  XPath is subtle :-\
>
> Daniel
>
>