Hello all. I have already sent this message to James but since I've
committed myself to dom4j I've joined the mailing list and sending it to
everyone. Anyway, I think a bug has been introduced into the .4 release of
dom4j. Prior to .4, if you made a selection from an Element using an XPath
xpression, the xpression evaluated with the Element as the current context
node. That no longer works. I think the expression is being evaluated
using the root node as the context node. For example:
/* XML snippet */
<root>
<element1>
<element2>some data</element2>
</element1>
</root>
/* Java snippet */
Element root = document.getRootElement();
// This no longer works
Element element2 = (Element)root.selectSingleNode( "/element1/element2" );
// This works
Element element3 = (Element)root.selectSingeNode( "//element1/element2" );
I went back and downloaded dom4j-0.3 and changed my classpath. I re-ran my
program and it works as expected to. So I'm sure that the bug has something
to do with the .4 release. Any help is appreciated because I would prefer
not having to go back and change other code that I have that expects the
current element to be the context node for an xpath xpression.
Thanx
Dane Foster
Equity Technology Group, Inc
http://www.equitytg.com.
954.360.9800
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