[lxml-dev] ancestor-or-self

Nov. 9, 2009

      Hi,
I'm observing that xpath axis "ancestor-or-self" does not function
properly. Below outputs demonstrate the case.
In the first one whole tree is printed, and in the second one
ancestor-or-self is used, but the result does not differ.

I'll open a ticket for this as a bug, unless someone tells me that I'm
missing a point.
Thanks,

Polat Tuzla

In [309]: print etree.tostring(root, pretty_print=True)
<a>
  <b>
    <c/>
    <x>
      <z/>
    </x>
  </b>
</a>

In [310]:  print
etree.tostring(root.xpath("/a/b/c/ancestor-or-self::*")[0],
pretty_print=True)
   .....:
<a>
  <b>
    <c/>
    <x>
      <z/>
    </x>
  </b>
</a>