From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-01-27T11:07:13+09:00
Subject: REXML and XPath

The documentation for REXML says is has full XPath 1.0 support.
However, I can't see a way to get the XPath class to return values
other than nodes. For example, if I have an XML document that contains
"book" elements, I should be able to do something like this.

count = XPath.evaluate(doc, count('//book'))

There is no "evaluate" method and the "first" and "match" methods don't do this.

Is this supported?

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.