[4suite] Xpath expression ?

[Uche Ogbuji]

Mike Olson wrote:
> 
> Sebastien PIERRE wrote:
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Is the following expression an XPath expression ? :
> > | *[(name()!='Introduction')and(name()!='Abstract')]
> > is it valid to do that :
> > | *[name()!=('Introduction' and 'Abstract')]
> 
> The second case is not valid.
> >
> > It is supposed to get every child node of the current node, except the
> > ones named "Introduction" and "Abstract".
> 
> The first case doesn't parse correctly.  It's a known problems.
> According to the spec and() is a legal function name and our parser
> sometimes gets confused.  If you remove the parentehesis around the last
> statement it parses correctly.
> 
> *[(name()!='Introduction') and name()!='Abstract']

Again to note, this bug has been fixed in the upcoming release.

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