try this:

//book[author and title]

It should works, ive made many xpath query of these kind in .Net

Jonathan

> hi group,

	I am getting sick of it. .net doesn't even support a simple xpath 
like 
			//book/(author,title) where author and title are 
childnodes of book. 


Regards
Rohit Arora

Hi Jonathan

I know that this kinda query works --- //book[author and title]

but what exactly I want is like

//book[authorid =5 and title ="dffd"]/(authorname, bookcost) which i think
can't be accomplished by query like
-------- //book[author and title]

There must be some way to execute xpath like this...what currently I am
doing is a very inefficient way but I am helpless.
Wht i am doing looks somethin like this --

//book[authorid =5 and title ="dffd"]/authorname |//book[authorid =5 and
title ="dffd"]/authorname bookcost

One more problem I was facing was when I give xpath like //book[position() 
first()] and it asks somethin like using namespace manager. Can u put some
light on this. A code sample will do great.


Regards
Rohit Arora
Intersolutions (P) Ltd
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Noida - 201301
Tel : 91-2585703/04/05 Extn: 229


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Larouche [mailto:jlarouche@d...]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:21 PM
To: ASP.NET
Subject: [aspx] Re: xpath


try this:

//book[author and title]

It should works, ive made many xpath query of these kind in .Net

Jonathan

> hi group,

	I am getting sick of it. .net doesn't even support a simple xpath
like
			//book/(author,title) where author and title are
childnodes of book.


Regards
Rohit Arora

Rohit Arora wrote:
>....I am getting sick of it. .net doesn't even support a simple xpath
like //book/(author,title) where author and title are childnodes of book...
I want to know : Do you want to select the childndoes(author and title) or 
test if are childnodes of book?



Rohit Arora wrote:
>.... One more problem I was facing was when I give xpath like //book
[position() = first()] and it asks somethin like using namespace manager. 
Can u put some light on this. A code sample will do great....

To Use position() and first() functions in Xpath Query, you must add the 
XSLT namespace, it's not a Xpath base function

PS : you can send email directly to me @ jlarouche@d...

Regards
Jonathan