Re: [xml] noob xpath question

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

Perhaps your difficulty is not with XPath, but rather with the command
interpreter (bash?) on your system?  Try surrounding your query with
"single-quotes", i.e. make the command line query
   '/myroot/myelement[ type="a"]'
and see if the result becomes more meaningful.

Bill

Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> > I think what you want is this: /myroot/myelement[ type="a"]
>
> Yes, this is a variant I tried. xpath1.c sample code returns "Result
> (0 nodes):" where as /myroot/myelement returns (as I would expect):
>
> Result (2 nodes):
> = element node "myelement"
> = element node "myelement"
>
> I have been interpreting the 0-node result as my mistake in syntax,
> but based on another off-list reply, and yours, I have at least on
> several occasions used the correct syntax. I hesitate to blame the
> sample code though, as I am pretty green at this so far.
>
>
> > here is a simple python program to play with:
>
> Thanks I will try this.
>
>
> Stefan Jeglinski