[jdom-interest] Question about selecting nodes with XPath

[Paul Libbrecht]

I think that one of the errors could be that the root node is not 
correctly interpreted by Jaxen's JDOM navigator. I tended to observe 
this on cloned Element objects, i.e., on nodes that did not have a 
parent document...

paul

Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Thanks for the tons of suggestions!
> Now everything works fine!
>
>   
>> If you're selecting with the root as context node, //a:displayname will
>> select all the a:displayname elements
>>     
> Yes I am selecting with root as context node, so it should do exactly
> what I would like it to do :)
>
>   
>> You might be encountering the same bugs as I did, namely, that of //elt
>> seems not to select the child... I think it's a bug of Jaxen. It happens
>> with both plain Jaxen and JDOM wrapper for it to me. Changing the path
>> to .//elt worked for me though.
>>     
> For now everything works like it should, but if I encounter problems
> I'll give it a try.
>
> Thanks again, lg Clemens
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