RE: [xml-dev] XPath problem with selectSingleNode in MSXML4

[John Sands <wonkowatson@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for letting me know it's a bug. I found that my XPath expression -
"/config/link[@default]/@href" - worked in Aaron Skonnard's very useful XPath
Expression Builder
(http://staff.develop.com/aarons/bits/xpath-expression-builder-4.0/) which
seemed funny because it uses MXSML4, so I looked at his code. He uses
selectNodes, of course, so I tried that and it worked:

  var href = xmldoc.selectNodes("/config/link[@default]/@href")[0].value;


--- Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com> wrote:
> This is a bug in our implementation which should fixed in a future
> release. 
> 
> Thanks for bringing it to our attention. 
> 
> PS: The behavior is implemented correctly in the .NET XmlDocument class
> which can be used in ASP.NET if you plan to adopt it. 
> 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Sands [mailto:wonkowatson@yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 8:46 PM
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: [xml-dev] XPath problem with selectSingleNode in MSXML4
> > 
> > 
> > I have a file called config.xml like this:
> > 
> >  <?xml version="1.0"?>
> >  <config>
> >   <link href="tree.asp"/>
> >   <link href="search.asp" default="true" />
> >  </config>
> > 
> > This Javascript ASP code finds the href with the 
> > "default=true" attribute:
> > 
> >  var xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0");
> >  xmldoc.async = false;  xmldoc.load(Server.MapPath("config.xml"));
> >  xmldoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
> >  var defaultpage = xmldoc.selectSingleNode("/config/link[@default]");
> >  var href = defaultpage.getAttribute("href");
> > 
> > My question is, why doesn't this code find it as well?
> > 
> >  var xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0");
> >  xmldoc.async = false;  xmldoc.load(Server.MapPath("config.xml"));
> >  xmldoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
> >  var href = xmldoc.selectSingleNode("/config/link[@default]/@href");
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John Sands
> > 


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