vlad_tepesch has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i try to use a 'for'-expression in a findvalue-xpath expression but i get an error: 

XPath error : Invalid expression
for $x in //type/@name return (concat('Hallo', $a))
    ^

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any ideas from the wise monks of perl wisdom?

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Re: XML::LIBXML XPATH for
by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 29, 2012 at 10:37 UTC

    Is this supposed to be Perl code? It doesn't look like it. It also doesn't look like XPath -- maybe it's XSLT? If so, you need an XSLT processor, not just an XPath engine.

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        XML::LibXML is based on libxml, which only supports XPath 1.0:

        XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
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