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Re: Nasty XPath expressions

• To: francis@r..., Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@c...>
• Subject: Re: Nasty XPath expressions
• From: Dare Obasanjo <kpako@y...>
• Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:52:05 -0800 (PST)
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <3C1A4148.5010202@r...>

--- Francis Norton <francis@r...> wrote:
> >>Oracle's XML Parser also provides an XPath engine
> that's
> >>woven into our DOM implementation. Using it is as
> easy as:
> >>  
> yourNode.selectNodes("Your/Favorite[XPath=Here]");
> >>  
>
yourNode.selectSingleNode("Your/Favorite[XPath=Here]");
> >>   yourNode.valueOf("Your/Favorite[XPath=Here]");
> > 
> > You say your users haven't asked for more, but if
> I was to become your
> > user, I would. .net offers these methods as well, 
> 
> How does .Net support .valueOf(<XPathExpression>)?
> I'm interested 
> because the fact that MSXML 3 only supports XPath
> expressions that 
> return node-lists is a bit of a frustration, and I
> couldn't find any 
> improvement on this in .Net beta 2.
> 

I don't think .NET's XML DOM API has any method
analogous to Oracle's .valueOf(<XPathExpression>) 


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