yes. that is the reason. Thanks Andreas.
Amila
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Andreas Veithen
wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 13:36, Amila Suriarachchi
> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I am getting some null pointer exceptions for some xpath queries
> executed on
> > Axiom objects. Here is a sample
I checked the XPath specs and this is actually the expected behavior.
The reason is that //sn:wrapper/sn:placeOrder is an abbreviation for
/descendant-or-self::node()/child::sn:wrapper/child::sn:placeOrder.
Therefore the node set is empty if sn:wrapper is the root node.
However the following expres