Re: [Exist-open] XPath on a collection does not work

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

> when I have a db created on such uri:
>
> xmldb:exist:///db/shakespeare/plays
>
> and try to run an xpath query like:
>
> service.query("//PLAY")
>
> the result does not have any resources in the ResourceSet, however,
> with the query
>
> service.query("//*")
>
> I get the participating resources.

Both queries should be ok, though they will return different results.
However, I would recommend to always specify the collection in the
query, e.g.:

collection("/db/shakespeare/plays")/PLAY

This way the context will be explicit to the query engine.

Wolfgang