javascript xpath not recognizing '?' and '#'

[rhitam30111985]

Hi all,

I have an xml like this :

<root>
  <url  newurl="something.asp?folder/file.htm#somethingsomething" />
<root>

This is stored in a file. i am loading it at runtime like this :

var xmlDoc; 
xmlDoc.load(Filepath);

Till here it works fine ... file is loaded correctly and everything. Then i am doing something like this :

var xpath="",Url,Node;
Url = window.location.href.split(window.location.host+"/")[1]; //To get the part after the host ... this is the same format that is there in the "newurl" attribute of the xml shown above 
    
xpath="url[@newurl='"+Url+"']";
Node = selectSingleNode(xmlDoc.documentElement,xpath);

The function selectSingleNod e is as follows :

function selectSingleNode(sElem,sXPath) {
    if(sElem==null) return null;
	try{// IE 
		return sElem.selectSingleNode(sXPath);
	}
	catch(ee){//Firefox and other browsers  
		var oEvaluator = new XPathEvaluator();
		// FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE returns the first match to the xpath.
		var oResult = oEvaluator.evaluate(sXPath, sElem, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null);
		if (oResult != null) {
			return oResult.singleNodeValue;
		} 
		else {
			return null;
		}   
	}
}

But Node is returning null even if the url is clearly present as an attribute.

Any ideas ?

Regards ,

Rhitam

[acoder]

Why not use getAttribute - see link.

[rhitam30111985]

Why not use getAttribute - see link.

Thanks for reply ... actually my problem was due to not checking upper and lowwer case ... i used xpath translate() function instead ... anyhow ... problem is solved now ..

[acoder]

That's fab. Thanks for posting!