Re: Searching subtrees with XML::LibXML::XPathContext always searches whole document

I haven't checked thoroughly your code, but I'd be willing to bet that the problem is that //apps:login should be .//apps:login. With the . you start from the current node, without it you start from the root of the document. That's a common mistake with XPath. Am I right?

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Re^2: Searching subtrees with XML::LibXML::XPathContext always searches whole document - why? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 08, 2010 at 16:47 UTC
Indeed. `//apps:login` [download] is short for `/descendant::apps:login` [download] Just like with directory paths, expressions starting with "/" start searching at the root. To look for descendants of the topic node, one must use a relative path such as `descendant::apps:login` [download] or `.//apps:login` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Searching subtrees with XML::LibXML::XPathContext always searches whole document - why? by nneul (Novice) on Feb 08, 2010 at 16:54 UTC
Thank you both!!! Knew it had to be something stupid-simple that was wrong with my usage.	[reply]