Re: XPath query not working as expected

..oO(yawnmoth)

<?php
$xml = new DOMDocument();
$xml->loadHTML('<html><body><font color="blue"><b>test</b></font></
body></html>');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($xml);


//$result = $xpath->query('//descendant::font[@color=blue]');
//$result = $xpath->query('//font[@color=blue]');
$result = $xpath->query('//font[0]');

echo "length = " . $result->length . '<br />';
for ($i = 0; $i < $result->length; $i++)
{
echo $result->item($i)->textContent . '<br />';
echo $result->item($i)->nodeValue . '<br />';
}
?>

Why is the length being returned 0? Shouldn't it be 1?

Counting nodes starts with 1, so this query

//font[1]

should work as expected.

Micha
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