XPath evaluation

[Josef Garvi]

I'm trying to do some basic things with the new XPath class in JDK 1.5.

When evaluating the path "/", I thought I was going to get my document root
element (see http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_location.asp), but I get
the XML encoding header node instead:

"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>"

I'm just trying something simple like:

Node node =
(Node) xpath.evaluate("/", doc, XPathConstants.NODE);


Have I misunderstood the use of "/"?

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Josef Garvi

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[Larry Coon]

Have I misunderstood the use of "/"?

According to this:
<http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/dist/1.1/docs/tutorial/xslt/1_intro.html>

"The root element of the XML data is modeled by
an element node. The XPath root node contains the
document's root element, as well as other information
relating to the document."

 

[Josef Garvi]

Josef Garvi wrote:

According to this:
<http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/dist/1.1/docs/tutorial/xslt/1_intro.html>

"The root element of the XML data is modeled by
an element node. The XPath root node contains the
document's root element, as well as other information
relating to the document."

Thanks. Studying that page showed I have to write "/*" rather than "/".

--
Josef Garvi

"Reversing desertification through drought tolerant trees"
http://www.eden-foundation.org/

new income - better environment - more food - less poverty