A few points: 1) '//' is very ineffecient, if you can avoid using it.
2) The last step is 'variables' so you're selecting the single <variables> node not the <variable> nodes. Though, you should have gotten at least size() == 1 in that case. 3) Try /jobTicket/cdg/variables/variable -bob On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Paul Tomsic wrote: > I'm having trouble digging out what appears to be > obvious informatino from my XML file, using the > following code: > > XPath xpath = new JDOMXPath("//cdg/variables"); > List variables = xpath.selectNodes(doc); > > my list is always size() == 0. What I'm looking for > is all of the "variable" elements. > Is my xpath incorrect? > > my xml: > --- > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <jobTicket url="http://localhost/cdg"> > <order id="123456" date="20/11/2002"> > <userInfo username="thisUser"/> > </order> > <cdg> > <template uri="/usr/local/template.txt"/> > <variables> > <variable varName="one"/> > <variable varName="two"/> > </variables> > </cdg> > </jobTicket> > > --- > > thanks in advance. > Paul > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing > your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte > Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html > _______________________________________________ > Jaxen-interest mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest > -- Bob McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Werken Company http://werken.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Jaxen-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest