[XML-SIG] Bug in 0.8.3 ?

[paul.boddie at ementor.no]

Matthias Kirst [mailto:matt at clondiag.com] wrote:
> 
> I'm using the PyXML Suite 0.8.3 with Python 2.3.
> The error I'm describing did not occur with 0.7.1 on Python 2.2.
> 
> The expression:
> 
> xpath.Evaluate( '//SUBSTANCE_GROUP[not( contains( @name, "reverse" )
> )]/SUBSTANCE', doc )
> 
> failed with:
> 
> 'Expected node set from relative expression.  Got ()'

This is probably related to the bug #784653 on SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=784653&group_id=6473&atid=106473

>From what I discovered, stray text nodes seem to cause the search to fail in
exactly the way you describe.

Paul