Re: newbie question... does Xindice support text() ?

[Gary Hallmark]

xindice only processes xpath expressions that return elements. If you ask 
for an attribute or text node, you won't get anything. If you ask for the 
enclosing element, you'll get it plus what you wanted. Presumably this is 
because xindice likes to add additional attributes to the top level element 
(like the original document key), and needs a place to hang them.

IMHO this is all undesirable. Xindice should provide a separate interface 
for retrieving those additional document attributes, and not stick them 
into each top level result element. Then it could also return any XML node 
as the result of an xpath query and still provide the additional 
attributes. Another problem with the added attributes is that you may have 
to remove them to validate results against a DTD or schema that doesn't 
expect them.

At 10:33 AM 6/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
Hi All,
   I am new to both XML and Xindice, and I apologize if this is a stupid/rtfm
question. I looked around in faqs and archived messages, but couldn't find an
answer.
The query I was trying to run was "//name/text()".
Stand-alone Xalan (2.3.1) works fine for this query, but Xindice (1.0)
doesn't return anything, though it works fine for "//name".  I even 
changed the
default xalan library in Xindice to the 2.3.1 version, but that doesn't 
help either.

Is this a known bug/problem ? Or am I doing something wrong ?
Thanks,
Amol.
Cheers, Gary