RE: [xsl] Problems with usage of certain characters in comparison expressions in XPath

[Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

> <function name="x">
> <CalledIn>
> 	<Page name="a\b\c\d">
> 	<occurence>
> 	<LineNo>177</LineNo>
> 	<Text>call x()</Text>
> 	</occurence>
> 	<occurence>
> 	<LineNo>194</LineNo>
> 	<Text>call y :call x()</Text>
> 	</occurence>
> 	<occurence>
> 	<LineNo>210</LineNo>
> 	<Text>call x()</Text>
> 	</occurence>
> 	<occurence>
> 	<LineNo>229</LineNo>
> 	<Text>call x()</Text>
> 	</occurence>
> 	</Page>
> </CalledIn>
> </Function>
> 
> I have a XPath Query which goes like :
> "//Function[name='x']/CalledIn/Page[@name='a/b/c/d']"

In your example source you have "function" start tag and "Function" end tag - which one should it be? Anyhow, this should be

  //Function[@name='x']/CalledIn/Page[@name='a\b\c\d']

> which should return the specified nodes, but it doesnt do 
> that.Also when I
> say
> "//Function[name='x']/CalledIn/Page[@name!='']"
> it returns these nodes. I think the problem is with using the 
> character "\"

In your source you have '\' and in your XPath statement '/'.

Santtu

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