Hello Everyone,

    I am having some very strange results using the XPath classes
included with the JDK1.5.0_01. Check this out:

XML:

<final>
<a>
<b>1</b>
<b>2</b>
</a>
<a>
<b>3</b>
<b>4</b>
</a>
</final>

Code:

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);

public void printNodes(NodeList nl) {
     if(nl == null) { return; }
     if(nl.getLength() == 0) { return; }

    for(int i=0; i<nl.getLength(); i++) {
        Node n = nl.item(i);

               if(n.getNodeValue() != null &&
n.getNodeValue().toString().trim().length() > 0)
        System.out.println(n.getNodeValue());

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

    return;
    }

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When I run the XPAth query: //b[.=2]  That returns the proper <b> node.
But if I do   //b[.>2] or //b[b >= 1] or //b[. != 1]  .... all of those
return nothing even though there are valid results. Whenever I compare
on a string it always returns nothing. Are the XPath classes in the
JDK1.5 buggy? Should I be using a different library?

Im really confused.... simple xPaths without any []'s always seem to
work, but the node tests just dont want to work.

Any ideas?