[Freemarker-devel] Problem with //foo and Jaxen

[Daniel D. <dd...@fr...>]

I have run into the following *serious* problem when I'm using Jaxen
XPath.

XML:

<a>
  <x>1</x>
  <b>
    <x>2</x>
    <x>3</x>
  </b>
  <x>4</x>
</a>

Template:

<#list doc['//x'] as x>
- ${x}
</#list>

Output:

- 1
- 4
- 2
- 3

Instead of the expected:

- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4

The API docs of org.jaxen.BaseXPath.selectNodes says:

<quote>
In most cases, nodes will be returned in document-order, as defined by
the XML Canonicalization specification. The exception occurs when using
XPath expressions involving the union operator (denoted with the pipe
'|' character).
</quote>

So... what's going on? Jaxen bug? But such ugly? I have tried it with
both 1.0 and latest 1.1 beta.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany