Can you query from a non-root node using XPathAPI?

[Scott Simpson]

Can you query from a non-root node using XPathAPI's function
selectNodeList(Node contextNode, java.lang.String str)? I'm trying this
using the XPath expression "//*" and I'm getting nothing back. I know the
node I pass to this function has data in it because I'm inspecting it in the
debugger using Eclipse. The Javadoc doesn't say you can't query from a
non-root node. Thanks.

 

[Martin Honnen]

Can you query from a non-root node using XPathAPI's function
selectNodeList(Node contextNode, java.lang.String str)? I'm trying this
using the XPath expression "//*" and I'm getting nothing back. I know the
node I pass to this function has data in it because I'm inspecting it in the
debugger using Eclipse. The Javadoc doesn't say you can't query from a
non-root node. Thanks.

//* is an absolute path, it is never relative but always goes down from
the document root node to all element nodes in the document.
If you want a relative path you are probably looking for
.//*
which goes down from the context node to all element descendant nodes.

 

[Scott Simpson]

Thank you. That worked.

//* is an absolute path, it is never relative but always goes down from
the document root node to all element nodes in the document.
If you want a relative path you are probably looking for
.//*
which goes down from the context node to all element descendant nodes.