[xml] Re: Is it possible to do XPath queries in subtrees?

[Steinar Bang <sb dod no>]

> > > > > Stefan Seefeld <seefeld sympatico ca>:

> Steinar Bang wrote:

> > Since the only function that create an xmlXPathContext is
> > xmlPathNewContext() which takes xmlDoc argument, does this means
> > that it's only possible to do XPath queries from the top of
> > documents?

> Here is my how I implement a 'Node::Find' method (warning: C++ ahead !)
[snip! example]
> i.e. I explicitely set the 'node' member of the context variable
> after it has been allocated.

OK.  That verifies that it should work.  What had confused me in my
first attempts on my own, was that I thought the top of the search
would be the current node, which made me try queries such as "//id",
and "/customer/id".

But queries starting with "/" always goes to the top of the document,
it seems.  When I set the node, and tried queries like "id", it worked
perfectly.

Thanx!


- Steinar