Iñaki Baz Castillo
2010-Jan-22 15:16 UTC
About new commit "xpath methods can return things other than nodesets"
Hi, I''m a bit afraid about this recet commit:
http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/commit/45c6d1d4902e100fecc3741985870aa4edda9a25
"xpath methods can return things other than nodesets"
In my case I use Nokogiri in a server application which receives Xpath strings
from remote clients and performs such Xpath operation within a XML document
stored in the server.
However I do a strict pre-parsing of the Xpath string so it must have the form
of a "typical" Xpath
("ns1:root/ns2:child/ns2:somenode[@name=''lala'']").
The server application expects to get a NodeSet after performing the Xpath
operation and evaluates it (empty, number of entries....) by alwasying
inspecting the NodeSet#size method.
Should I care about this new commit? Could occur that Xpath returns something
but a NodeSet in my case?
Thanks.
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I?aki Baz Castillo <ibc at aliax.net>