Re: [xsl] Problems with usage of XPath functions as argument in selectNodes method of MSXML2

Subject: Re: [xsl] Problems with usage of XPath functions as argument in selectNodes method of MSXML2
From: John Escott <jre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:07:39 +0000
Hi Ratul,

> I have a problem with usage of XPath functions in selectNodes method of
> MSXML2(Micorsoft XML version 3.0).I was trying to write :
> oXMLDoc.selectNodes("//x[contains(@y,'abc')]")
> But it gives me an error which says that contains is an unknown method.But I
> think the argument passed to the method uses valid XPath function.

I don't know much about v3.0, but I've noticed in the v4 documentation
that MSXML has 2 selection languages: XPath and XSLPatterns.  May be the
wrong one is set.  You may need

  oXMLDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");

best regards, John.

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