[XML-SIG] xpath error

[Ajay]

Quoting Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com>:

> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 19:19, Ajay wrote:
> > hi!
> >
> > i parsed an XML document using minidom and then executed the following
> > statement:
> > dataNodes = xpath.Evaluate(".//*[local-name()='DATA']",
> > document.documentElement)
> >
> > this gives an error
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\xpath\__init__.py",
> line 70,
> > in E
> > valuate
> >     retval = parser.new().parse(expr).evaluate(con)
> >   File
> >
> "C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\xpath\ParsedAbbreviatedRelativeLo
> > cationPath.py", line 52, in evaluate
> >     res = Set.Union(res,subRt)
> >   File "C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\xpath\Set.py", line 25,
> in
> > Union
> >     return compare + filter(lambda x,compare = compare:x not in
> > compare,loop)
> > TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "tuple") to list
>
> This is a bug that was reported a month ago or so.  The main problem is
> that the XPath implementation in PyXML has fallen a long ways behind the
> code in 4Suite, and no one has the spare cycles for a re-merge.
>

but i am using _xmlplus.dom.minidom and xpath from the same package.
surely they should work?
apart from doing a traversal myself, is there a way around it?

thanks
cheers




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