Hello: I'm struggling mighty hard with XPath:

I have a script where this works:

my $nodeset = $xpath->find( '/Competitive/Item');

...and this works:

    my $nodeset = $xpath->find( '//*');

...and this works:

    my $nodeset = $xpath->find( '/Competitive/Item[position()<=200]');

...BUT this does NOT work:

    my $nodeset = $xpath->find( '/Competitive/Item[name()="Putnam"]');

...nor does this work either:

    my $nodeset = $xpath->find( '/Competitive/Item[starts-with(name()="Putnam")]');

I'm running Perl on Windows, with the latest ActiveState install.

Any ideas where to look or what to change? Why does one function (position) work and another function (name) not work for me?

Thanks!

In reply to Help with XPath by dbonneville

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