Delphi and XPath functions

Question

Can I use Xpath node set function position() in Delphi's function selectNodes() to select only a certain number of element from a node list? If I do like this:

selectNodes('Item[1]')

its all fine and I get the element with index 1, but when I try

selectNodes('Item[position()<10]')

I get exception 'unknown method', when I try

selectNodes('Item[<10]')

I get 'unexpected token <'. Im using delphi7 and I also imported new type library into my project with newer versions of msxml.

Answer 1

selectNodes requires a string, so you should try:

selectNodes('Item[position()<10]')

Or whatever xpath query.

Answer 2

This is not really a Delphi question I think, but an MSXML one. Check the MSXML docs or rather the MS XPath docs.

Hmm, according to the XPath examples posted on MSDN "Item[position() < 10]" should have worked, at least if "Item" is the name of the element you're after...

Answer 3

Could it be a version-issue? I have imported typelibrary from MS XML 6, and gets no error.