Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Rob" == Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Rob> my @bad = $doc->findnodes(q{//address[starts-with(code, "BJPU")]}); Actualy, doesn't that require code immediately below addess?
Yes
Don't you want .//code there ?
Almost certainly not. In the example XML <code> appeared only as a child element of <address>. In the general case it is unlikely to reappear at a lower level and // would force the XSLT engine to search further than was necessary. By the way the dot is also unnecessary as it is implicit before // anywhere except at the beginning of a path expression. (A path starting with // covers all descendants of the document root.) HTH & Happy Christmas Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
