Marc Speck wrote:
> I have a query like
> //*[jcr:contains(.,"whatever")/(@jcr:name | @jcr:primaryType |
> @f:myProperty)
> to retrieve some excerpts. I need a RowIterator for the excerpt (=can't use
> NodeIterator) and some custom properties in the result table (= no default
> properties in the table).
> 
> Unfortunatelly,
> currentRow.getValue(JcrConstants.JCR_NAME).getString();
> throws an error. I hacked around it with using JcrConstants.JCR_PATH but is
> there a better way to retrieve the name of a node from a row?

no, there isn't.

org.apache.jackrabbit.util.Text.getName(row.getValue("jcr:path").getString())

is the best you can do.

regards
 marcel