Re: V5R4 native xml processing - a user's critique

Larry Ducie wrote:
> 
> One last question - the path option does not begin with a '/' in the
> examples in the documentaion. Could I still write it with a leading slash? I
> mean is the option 'path=root/level1/level2/child' the same as the option
> 'path=/root/level1/level2/child', or would I get an error if I coded the
> last example? I'm used to XPath notation when navigating around an xml doc
> and the leading slash jumps out as the document root and tells me that the
> path is absolute, not relative. Can I do the same when coding the path
> option, or do just assume that all paths are considered absolute and the
> leading slash in redundant?
> 

The path is always absolute.  Sorry, but a leading slash isn't
supported.