On Jul 3, 4:38=A0pm, "Joseph J. Kesselman" <keshlam-nos...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> However,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 "//apple | //orange"
> really should work. XPath defines the '|' character as the union
> operator. This expression should return every node that is either an
> apple or an orange. You say you're only getting the first hit -- but I
> think that means either you're misusing your XPath API by failing to
> retrieve results after the first, or it's broken and you should consider
> switching implementations. (You didn't show us the surrounding code, and
> I don't recognize the syntax, so I can't say much beyond that.)


The problem here is that the xpath_eval statement defaults a third
parameter which indicates that you only want the FIRST node returned.
=46rom the Virtuoso Documentation....


xpath_eval (in xpath_expression varchar, in xml_tree XML Entity, [in
index integer], [in named_params vector]);

Description
This function returns the result of applying the XPath expression to
the context node. By default only the first result is returned, but
supplying a third argument allows you to specify an index for the
value; the default assumes a value of 1 here. A value of 0 returns an
array of 0 or more elements, one for each value selected by the XPath
expression.


Always pays to check the documentation!!


Nick