Re: [xml] xpath query search only first attributes!?

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* adel wrote:
> ##### test xml #####
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <root>
>       <elem1 id="123" name="_boo_">contents 1</elem1>
>       <elem2 name="_str_">contents 2</elem2>
> </root>
> ##########

I assume you meant to write _str_ instead of _boo_ here.

> for url in doc.xpathEval('//*[contains (@*, "str")]'):

> 1) http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41974

As the http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath XPath specification explains, this is
the same as //*[contains(string(@*), "str")]; @* evaluates to a node-set
and http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-string

  A node-set is converted to a string by returning the string-value
  of the node in the node-set that is first in document order. If the
  node-set is empty, an empty string is returned.

Further, "The relative order of attribute nodes is implementation-de-
pendent". Use //*[ *[ contains(., 'str') ]] (all elements with one or
more attributes whose value contains 'str').
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