XPath problem

["Mark A. Richman" <mr...@ispchannel.com>]

I am using Xalan-J 1.2 (10/13/2000) to evaluate the following expression on this XML file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<users>
<user username="mark" password="mypassword" email="mark@markrichman.com"
rootfolder="c:/users/mark/"/>
<user username="mark2" password="mypassword2" email="mark2@markrichman.com"
rootfolder="c:/users/mark2/"/>
<user username="mark3" password="mypassword3" email="mark3@markrichman.com"
rootfolder="c:/users/mark3/"/>
<user username="mark4" password="mypassword4" email="mark4@markrichman.com"
rootfolder="c:/users/mark4/"/>
</users>

When I apply the following XPath expression, I retrieve a Node:

//users/user[@username='mark']

But when I substitute @username='mark2', I get a null Node object back.

What gives?  Here is my code:

  try
  {
   parser.parse(xmlFile);
  } 
  catch (Exception e)
  {
   e.printStackTrace();
  } 

  document = parser.getDocument();
  Node root = parser.getDocument().getDocumentElement();
  Node usernode = null;

  //XPath looks like: "/users/user[@username='mark']"

  String xpath = "//users/user[@username='" + username +"']";

  System.out.println("XPath: " + xpath);

  try
  {
   usernode = XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(root, xpath);   // getting null usernode with 'mark2' here!!!!
  }
  catch(Exception ex)
  {
   System.out.println(ex);
  }


Thanks,
Mark

Re: XPath problem

[Gary L Peskin <ga...@firstech.com>]

> "Mark A. Richman" wrote:
> What gives?  Here is my code:

Mark ---

Did you ever get this resolved?

Gary