Re: [xml] Newbie Help

[Bryan Christ <bryan christ hp com>]

Well that helps a bit, but the problem still remains that the list shouldn't return empty.  Any thoughts?

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:14, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:44:47PM -0500, Bryan Christ wrote:
> > Supplying the leading / is one of the permutations of the _expression_
> > that I have already tried.  When I do this, I *do not* get the error
> > messages:
> > 
> > xmlXPathNodeCollectAndTest xpath.c:1923 : nodelist and node are NULL
> > 
> > However, xpath_object is still returned as NULL.  According to the
> > documentation, even if there are no matches, shouldn't I receive back a
> > valid pointer to an empty list?
>
>   No, you may get NULL for an empty Nodeset. It's an optimization 
> which made huge difference for XSLT performances (no need to allocate/
> deallocate empty lists all the time).
>
> Daniel