Hello Everyone,

   I've looked through all the help files I can find, and as far as I
know what Im doing is correct. I wrote a simple program that accepts an
XPath from the command line and runs them against a set XML file. All
the XPath's work great except when I compare the value of one tag
against a string, and then it returns nothing.
Check this out:

XML:

<cap>
<a>
<b> test </b>
<c> test2 </c>
</a>
<a>
<b> test3 </b>
</a>
</cap>

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public test(String q) {

    try {    File impFile = new File("test.xml");
        DocumentBuilder db =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
        Document impDoc = db.parse(impFile);
        XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
        NodeList nl = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(q, impDoc,
XPathConstants.NODESET);
        printNodes(nl);

        } catch(Exception exc) {
            exc.printStackTrace(System.out);
            }
        }

    public void printNodes(NodeList nl) {
        if(nl == null) { return; }
        if(nl.getLength() == 0) { System.out.println("zero"); return; }
        for(int i=0; i<nl.getLength(); i++) {
            Node n = nl.item(i);
            System.out.println(n);

            NodeList nl2 = n.getChildNodes();
            printNodes(nl2);
            }

        return;
        }

    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        test t = new test(argv[0]);
        }

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When I run the program with the xPath query //a[b="test"] it returns
nothing, when it should return the first <a> block. Any ideas?   Any
tag I try and check against a string variable like that returns
nothing. When I try attributes @test="string" that works and returns,
just not tag values.

Thanks everyone