Editor v19.1 build 2017102417: XPath bug or is it me?

[bds]

Hi all,

I'm having a weird issue with the XPath/XQuery Builder in v19.1 and I'm not sure if it's me, or a bug, or what. Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

Given a file:

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<list>

  <entry coll="abc" dept="def" disc="ghi"/>

</list>

Trying to run the following XPath 1.0 query,

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//entry[@dept='def']

using the XQuery/XPath builder, against this file is returning the following error message:

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ro.sync.xml.xpath.g: Prefix must resolve to a namespace: 

	at ro.sync.xml.xpath.l.d(Unknown Source)

	at ro.sync.xml.xpath.f.cb(Unknown Source)

	at ro.sync.xml.xpath.f.ab(Unknown Source)

	at ro.sync.exml.editor.xmleditor.i.n.dls(Unknown Source)

	at ro.sync.exml.editor.xmleditor.i.n.jls(Unknown Source)

	at ro.sync.exml.editor.xmleditor.i.n.kls(Unknown Source)

	at ro.sync.exml.editor.xmleditor.i.n.cls(Unknown Source)

	at ro.sync.exml.editor.xmleditor.i.n$1.pie(Unknown Source)

	at ro.sync.ui.application.nb.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: org.apache.xpath.domapi.XPathStylesheetDOM3Exception: Prefix must resolve to a namespace: 

	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.errorForDOM3(XPathParser.java:655)

	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.mapNSTokens(Lexer.java:647)

	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.tokenize(Lexer.java:224)

	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.tokenize(Lexer.java:98)

	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.initXPath(XPathParser.java:112)

	at org.apache.xpath.XPath.<init>(XPath.java:178)

	at ro.sync.xml.xpath.l.g(Unknown Source)

	... 9 more

The same query, using the XPath toolbar, works correctly; i.e. returns the highlighted section of the input file.

Am I misusing the XPath/XQuery builder view? Please let me know if I can provide additional details.
Thanks in advance for your time and trouble.

[bds]

Excuse me, please. I think I'm the problem here (PEBKAC) -- I had inserted a comment `(:...` above the XPath expression and it looks like that's what was causing the error.

Apologies for the noise.

[Radu]

Hi,

Thanks for the update. Indeed Xquery syntax comments were not supported in XPath 1.0.

Regards,
Radu