Re: Xpath AndExpr on attribute values?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Michael Beddow wrote:

> Can somebody please help me out with the right syntax for an
> Xpath expression that does a logical AND on the values of two
> attributes of the same element? I can get examples strictly
> modelled on Mike K. p 334-335 to work, but they don't cover my
> case.
> 
> Where I have stuff like
> <text>
>  <saying language="en" topic="morals">blah blah blah</saying>
>  ...
> </text>
> 
> I want to do something like
> <xsl:apply-templates select="text/saying[@language='en'] and
> text/saying[@topic='morals']"/>
> 
> but that gives me
> 
> org.apache.xalan.xpath.XPathException: Can not convert #UNKNOWN
> to a NodeList!

text/saying[@language='en' and @topic='morals']

The expression you've used results in a Boolean return value, rather than
a node list.

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