Please help pathan 1.2 release 2 Invalid XPath expression

["Agrawal, Vikas (ELS)" <V....@elsevier.co.uk>]

Please help somebody. I have build pathan and test program both in debug
mode.

bash-2.05$ gdb 002-SingleNodeFromList
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.9"...
(gdb) run
Starting program:
/disk01/home/vagrawal/captools/libpathan-1.2/examples/tests/002-SingleNodeFr
omList 

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xfed1e42c in _lwp_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) where
#0  0xfed1e42c in _lwp_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#1  0xfecccd78 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#2  0xfecb5c68 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#3  0xfedda800 in __cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)()) (
    handler=0xfedda848 <std::terminate()+28>)
    at ../../../../libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:47
(gdb) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alberto Massari [mailto:amassari@progress.com]
Sent: 21 April 2004 10:19
To: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: RE: [Pathan-devel] XPathException: The expression
'/child::*[1]/* ' is an invalid XPath expression


At 10.14 21/04/2004 +0100, Agrawal, Vikas (ELS) wrote:
>bash-2.05$ gdb 002-SingleNodeFromList
>GNU gdb 5.0
>Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
>welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
>conditions.
>Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1"...
>(gdb) run
>Starting program:
>/disk01/home/vagrawal/captools/libpathan-1.2/examples/tests/002-SingleNodeF
r
>omList
>
>Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
>0xfed9e42c in _lwp_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>(gdb)

Well, now type "where"....

Alberto


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alberto Massari [mailto:amassari@progress.com]
>Sent: 21 April 2004 10:05
>To: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org
>Subject: RE: [Pathan-devel] XPathException: The expression
>'/child::*[1]/* ' is an invalid XPath expression
>
>
>I would suggest you to comment the catch(...) block in the test program,
>and run it under the debugger; I guess you are getting an access violation
>that is masked by a generic message.
>
>Alberto
>
>At 09.57 21/04/2004 +0100, Agrawal, Vikas (ELS) wrote:
> >Hiran,
> >Thanks for your reply. Actually problem is common to any kind of
>expression.
> >I am using pathan in my application and there also I am getting invalid
> >XPath expression for all my expressions. Surprising thing is that my
> >application was used to work with Pathan 1.2 release 1. As soon as I
> >upgraded to Pathan 1.2 release 2 it has stopped working. Though still it
is
> >working on Windows using Pathan 1.2 release 2 but not on Solaris.
> >
> >See following is the straight forward simple expression but still it
fails.
> >XPathException: The expression
>
>'/xmlns:dataset/xmlns:dataset-content/xmlns:book-project/xmlns:files-info/x
>m
> >lns:ml/xmlns:pathname' is an invalid XPath expression
> >
> >I thought it might be the problem with namespace hence I changed above
> >expression to (on solaris)
> >'/dataset/dataset-content/book-project/files-info/ml/pathname'
> >Now it does not throw invalid XPath expression exception but returns the
> >multiple of random data from the tree.
> >
> >Even I modified expression as you suggested in the sample program
provided
> >by Pathan but still getting
> >bash-2.05$ 002-SingleNodeFromList
> >XPathException: The expression '/*[1]/*' is an invalid XPath expression
> >
> >Thanks.
> >Vikas Agrawal
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Hiran.Chaudhuri@softwareag.com
> >[mailto:Hiran.Chaudhuri@softwareag.com]
> >Sent: 20 April 2004 22:30
> >To: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org
> >Subject: RE: [Pathan-devel] XPathException: The expression
> >'/child::*[1]/*' is an invalid XPath expression
> >
> >
> >Hi, Vikas.
> >
> >Just a guess: "/" is the abbreviated version of the "child::" axis. So if
> >you use
> >"/child::..." you have used a grammar like this: <axisspecifier>
> ><axisspecifier> ...
> >And that is invalid.
> >
> >How about this:
> >"/*[1]/*"
> >
> >Hiran
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Agrawal, Vikas (ELS) [mailto:V.Agrawal@elsevier.co.uk]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:33 PM
> > > To: 'gareth@decisionsoft.com'
> > > Cc: 'xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org'
> > > Subject: [Pathan-devel] XPathException: The expression
> > > '/child::*[1]/*'
> > > is an invalid XPath expression
> > >
> > >
> > > We have built Pathan 1.2 release 2 on Solaris9 with
> > > gcc 3.2.3 and keep getting invalid xpath expression
> > > errors.
> > >
> > > When we run the test program 002-SingleNodeFromList
> > > we get:
> > > XPathException: The expression '/child::*[1]/*' is an
> > > invalid XPath expression.
> > >
> > > Perhaps we are making a mistake in the build process?
> > >
> > > Can someone please help?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Vikas Agrawal

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