Re: [Exist-open] Xpath & ancestor axis

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

Hi,

I fixed the bug in today's CVS.

Wolfgang


On Friday 21 May 2004 14:51, Jaksch Stefan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think there is a bug when using the ancestor axis in Xpath (eXist from
> CVS, 04-05-19):
>
> This is my document:
> <branch id="10">
> 	<branch id="11">
> 		<branch id="12">
> 			<branch id="13" link="1">
> 				<child id="13"/>
> 			</branch>
> 			<branch id="14" link="2">
> 				<child id="14"/>
> 			</branch>
> 			<branch id="15" link="3">
> 				<child id="15"/>
> 			</branch>
> 			<child id="12"/>
> 		</branch>
> 		<child id="11"/>
> 	</branch>
> 	<child id="10"/>
> </branch>
>
> The query is: //branch[@id="13"]/ancestor::branch/child
> Result is: <child id="12"/>
>
> When I change the query to:
> //branch[@id="13"]/ancestor::*/child
>
> I get the expected result:
> <child id="12"/>
> <child id="11"/>
> <child id="10"/>
>
> Is this a known issue, and are there other workarounds than using the
> wildcard?
> Regards,
> Stefan