XpathAPI utility class of Crimson parser.

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Is the crimson's xpath utility (XpathAPI) fully compatible to the xPath standards.I have tried some xpaths on a dom , but did not get expected results.I have following strict Xpath rults , this made me feel that this api mught not be following xPath strictly.

XML under consideration:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<father age="70">
<son>
<age>29</age>
</son>
<son name="Kumar">
<age>22</age>
</son>
</father>

and Xpath /father/son[1]/@name/text() should return Kumar but I am getting nothing.
Why is that so ?

[Prabhu Venkatachalam]

Rahul,

It seems like XPATH is wrong. Try this " /father/son[2]/@name ". Let me know if this didn't work.

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Originally posted by Prabhu venkatachalam:
It seems like XPATH is wrong. Try this " /father/son[2]/@name ". Let me know if this didn't work.

Yes Prabhu , this is working and returning me Kumar.
My xpath was worng.

/text() is not supposed to be used with attributes (only to be used with elements.).

Thanks,

[Prabhu Venkatachalam]

you are correct. text() XPATH function should be use with element to findout its text value.

Thanks!