Re: Problem evaluating XPath expression into a NodeList

On 10/22/2009 8:39 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>   >  /default:feed/default:entry/default:summary/text()
> 
> You're asking for text nodes. In the XPath view of the document, there 
> is no such thing as an empty text node, so the empty elements have no 
> children and do not contribute to this result.
> 
> If you want to see them, search for the elements and then ask each one 
> for its text content as a separate operation.
> 
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Thanks all for your help.  I am now iterating through the results 
returned by the XPath eval of 
'/default:feed/default:entry/default:summary'.

Could anybody suggest an elegant way to get these individual node values 
back into a nodelist which my class is expected to return?

Thanks again - Tod