Hi,
Joshua Portway wrote:
It seems to me I should be able to use the "following-sibling" axis in
an xpath query on the current node to find the next page, but as far as
I can tell Jackrabbit seems to silently ignore "following-sibling"
Jackrabbit does not support the following-sibling axis. The JSR 170
specification does not list it as a required feature.
The only thing I can think to do is to iterate through all children of
the parent node looking for my current node - but this is presumably
extraordinarily inefficient. In my case I'd be retrieving hundreds of
nodes from the repository simply to find a link address, which seems crazy.
that really is the only way.
I'm not sure why the JSR 170 specification does support this kind of use case,
but I guess it's because child nodes do not necessarily have to be orderable. In
which case a sibling axis cannot be defined.
As an alternative you could make your nodes referenceable and create a linked
list using reference properties. that way you can quickly traverse the sibling
axis. a major drawback however is that you have to maintain the links.
regards
marcel
