xmerl_xpath lists reversed?

Mikael Karlsson mikael.karlsson@REDACTED
Fri Sep 13 10:27:17 CEST 2002


Hi,

I am trying to extract xmlElement nodes from a document using
xmerl_xpath. The nodes seem to show up in reversed order.
The example below gives me the last section title, while I expected
the first. Have I missed something in the interpretation of xmerl_xpath?
Thanks
Mikael

Code snippet:
    {B,_}=xmerl_scan:file(A#arg.docroot ++ "/testdir/test1.xml",[{fetch_fun, 
fun(DTDSpec,S) -> {ok,S} end}]),

    D = xmerl_xpath:string("child::node()/title[position() = 1]",B),
    io:fwrite("~p~n",[D]),

    F = sdocbook2xhtml:changetitle(B),
    C = xmerl:export(F,sdocbook2xhtml),
   {content,"text/html",C}.

Document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<article  lang="en" >
  <articleinfo>
   ......bla bla....
  </articleinfo>
  <section>
    <title>Section 1</title>
    <para>Para 1 in section 1</para>
  </section>
  ... lots of sections...
  <section>
    <title>Section 6, the last section</title>
    <para>This is the first paragraph in the last section. </para>
  </section>
</article>

io:fwrite gives:
[{xmlElement,title,
             [{section,14},{article,1}],
             2,
             [],
             [{xmlText,[{title,2},{section,14},{article,1}],
                       1,
                       [],
                       "Section 6, the last section"}],
             [],
             title,
             [],
             {xmlNamespace,[],[]}}]




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