Hi,
I'm trying to migrate from jQuery 1.1.3 to 1.2.2, and I'm having trouble
converting my XPath expressions. In CSS, asterisks are "deep", i.e. they
match all elements that are descendants of the context node. In XPath,
they are not, i.e. they match only the elements that are _direct_
descendants of the context node.
Consider this XML:
<unknown_node_name>
<KNOWN_NODE>right node</KNOWN_NODE>
<more_unknown_deepiness>
<KNOWN_NODE>wrong node</KNOWN_NODE>
</more_unknown_deepiness>
</unknown_node_name>
Now, to get the "right node", I would use the XPath expression
"/*/KNOWN_NODE". (Note that the node name has to be uppercase for some
reason, or jQuery 1.1.3 won't find anything at all.)
I don't see any way to do this with CSS selectors. The Basic XPath plugin
translates the XPath expression to "* > KNOWN_NODE", which returns both
the right node _and_ the wrong node.
Anyone have a clue as to what I should do?
Tim
