Re: Error in XPath expression with IE

I'm sorry for not be explicit enough, my fault. The lack of the / was
a copy&paste problem, it should be there.

The [1] was a not-well-done example, cause in reality that is a variable,

xmlDoc.selectNodes("(//Menu)["+pos+"]/parent::Menu/MenuTitulo");

I'm very sorry for being so lazy and thanks a lot.


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:20:05 GMT, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>   (//Menu)[1]ancestor-or-self::Menu/MenuTitulo
> 
> That isn't correct Xpath so will generate an error on any conformant
> XPath system (I don't know if it would work in wd-xsl, but I didn't
> think that had that axis at all)
> 
> 
> adding a / so it says:
> 
>   (//Menu)[1]/ancestor-or-self::Menu/MenuTitulo
> 
> would make it syntactically correct but still strange.
> 
>  (//Menu)[1]
> 
> will select a Menu node (or nothing) so ancestor-or-self::Menu will
> always be the same as self::Menu so it can be omitted, so the expression
> is then equivalent to
> 
>   (//Menu)[1]/MenuTitulo
> 
> David
> 
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