Am i missing something in this Xpath?

[russurquhart1]

Hi,

i am trying to use the following snippet to find any/all elements that have a filter attribute set to the value 'filter5':

    var nodelist = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXpath(“*[@filter='filter5']”); 

There are elements that meet this criteria in the file, but it keeps returning 0?

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Russ

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[Derek Read]

Try this:

var nodelist = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXpath("//*[@filter='filter5']");

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[Derek Read]

I see the documentation in the Programmer's Guide is misleading in this instance (or we have strayed from the initial design of that API) which states that the path should be relative to the document's “DOMDocument” node (the document's root node). I'll follow this up with development.

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[russurquhart1]

I figured this out, right after i posted it, but thanks for the clarification!

Thanks,

Russ

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