Problem in XPath with attributes

[ArkBasel <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
(using latest version of xerces and xalan)

I converted a Xerces document to Xalan without any problems. I also
individually checked whether the converted Xalan document has all the
nodes and attributes and it has.

Then I wanted to do a XPath search with Xalan's select nodes. I am
able to search the tags for example "//name/address"  fine but if I
search for attributes "//name[@ids='fname']"  or "//name[@ids*]"  for
some reason non of the XPath expressions with attributes work and
returns only NULL. Is my XPath expression is bad or am I missing
anything?

<name ids='fname'>
   <address>
   </address>
</name>


Thanks
-AB

RE: Problem in XPath with attributes

["Coker, Jonathan M" <jo...@boeing.com>]

Try using double quotes in your first example:  @ids="fname".  That has
worked for me.

Regards 

-----Original Message-----
From: ArkBasel [mailto:mail2account@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 12:02 PM
To: xalan-c-users@xml.apache.org
Subject: Problem in XPath with attributes

Hi,
(using latest version of xerces and xalan)

I converted a Xerces document to Xalan without any problems. I also
individually checked whether the converted Xalan document has all the
nodes and attributes and it has.

Then I wanted to do a XPath search with Xalan's select nodes. I am able
to search the tags for example "//name/address"  fine but if I search
for attributes "//name[@ids='fname']"  or "//name[@ids*]"  for some
reason non of the XPath expressions with attributes work and returns
only NULL. Is my XPath expression is bad or am I missing anything?

<name ids='fname'>
   <address>
   </address>
</name>


Thanks
-AB