[JXPATH-12] Descendant or self axis does not work correctly at root node

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2 Final
• Fix Version/s: 1.3

Environment

Operating System: other
Platform: Other

• Bugzilla Id: 38586
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Simon Raess
• Created: 09/Feb/06 17:52
• Updated: 11/Sep/08 16:19
• Resolved: 10/Jan/07 18:45

Description

Given the following XML document: <root id="1234"/>
and the XPath: //root/@id/text().

JXPath returns null instead of "1234".

JXPathContext context = JXPathContext.newContext(doc);
assertEquals(value, context.selectSingleNode("//root/@id/text()"));

The attached JUnit test highlights the problem. It seems that JXPath does not
find the root node if it is accessed with the axis descendant-or-self.