DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6479] New: - Error in XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(doc, xpath), creating incorrect number of nodes when query has 3 or more descendant-or-self steps

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Error in XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(doc, xpath), creating incorrect number of nodes when query has 3 or more descendant-or-self steps

           Summary: Error in XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(doc, xpath),
                    creating incorrect number of nodes when query has 3 or
                    more descendant-or-self steps
           Product: XalanJ2
           Version: 2.3
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: Other
         Component: org.apache.xpath
        AssignedTo: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: hhe@eecs.wsu.edu


In ApplyXPath sample provided by Xalan-Java, when you execute the following 
statement:

    NodeIterator nl = XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(doc, xpath);

If the query string xpath including 3 or more descendant-or-self steps, the 
result will not have correct number of nodes, e.g. nl has fewer nodes in my 
example. Meanwhile, the result output will become very slow although the source 
XML file is not huge enough. Please use the files in the following URLs to take 
a try:

(1) XML file:
   http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hhe/mae.xml

(2) XPath query file (a batch of XPath queries)
   http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hhe/test3.xpt