Beginner's problems with XPath or may a bugreport

[ax...@db.com]

Hi,

I'm a beginner with XALAN. I installed XALAN-J as recommended (hope so) and I've got a problem with the sample ApplyXPath.

If I try it out using the following command line

     java ApplyXPath foo.xml /doc/name[@first="David"]

I allways get the result

     <output>
     </output>

but there are two "name" tags with a "first" attribute value "David":

     <?xml version="1.0"?>
     <doc>
       <name first="David" last="Marston"/>
       <name first="David" last="Bertoni"/>
       <name first="Donald" last="Leslie"/>
       <name first="Emily" last="Farmer"/>
       <name first="Jack" last="Donohue"/>
       <name first="Myriam" last="Midy"/>
       <name first="Paul" last="Dick"/>
       <name first="Robert" last="Weir"/>
       <name first="Scott" last="Boag"/>
       <name first="Shane" last="Curcuru"/>
     </doc>

Other queries I tried work fine. It only seems to be a problem with selecting elements by attribute values. Is it a known bug or have I done something wrong?

Any suggestion is welcome!

Thanks
Axel