Bug #14093: REXML doesn't implement name() and interprets nam() as an element path.

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: kou (Kouhei Sutou)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.4.2
• Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN

[jcavalieri (John Cavalieri)]

Please see the attached script.

Considering this xml:

<a><b><name/></b></a>

The xpath /a/b/name() xpath should return the name of element a. Instead it returns the child element name.

Output:

<name/>

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to kou (Kouhei Sutou)

[kou (Kouhei Sutou)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

/a/b/name() is an invalid LocationPath. LocationPath is consists of Steps. You can't use name() as Step. Because name() isn't NodeTest.

[kou (Kouhei Sutou)]

• Description updated (diff)