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Subject: Query by node name
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:00:13 -0800
Message-ID: <15CD2397F4339A449B77B12B112E969B42C723@cos-svr.polivec.com>
Thread-Topic: Query by node name
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From: "Joan Xiao" <jxiao@polivec.com>
To: <jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org>

Hello,

I'm having some problem when I try to query the repository by node name.

I have a custom node type, say my:file, which extends nt:file. And I'm
able to add nodes of this custom node type and then retrieve them
successfully.

Now I need to determine whether a node of certain name exists in the
repository. If I use the query string: //element(*, my:file), it
correctly returns all nodes of the type my:file. So suppose I have a
node of this type with path /Documents/test.txt, it does get returned.

But if I replace * by a node name, i.e., //element(test.txt, my:file),
it doesn't return anything even though the file exists and is returned
from the previous query.=20

I've also tried the following queries:
/Documents//element(*, my.file): returns nothing
/Documents//element(test.txt, my.file): returns nothing
/jcr:root//element(*, my.file): returns nothing
/jcr:root/Documents//element(*, my.file): returns nothing
/jcr:root/Documents//element(test.txt, my.file): returns nothing

I've also tried to use SQL query, but the result is consistent with
XPATH.

Is there anything I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks for any help.

Joan