XPath foo/bar/text() behaves like foo//bar/text()

[mestudd@…]

xml = XML('<root><foo><bar>Bar</bar><baz><bar>Quux</bar></baz>')
node = xml.select('foo/bar')
text = xml.select('foo/bar/text()')

node is correctly '<bar>Bar</bar>', but text is 'BarQuux', incorrectly adding the grandchild <bar> element text.

Attached is a patch for the unittests.

[mestudd@…]

Added tests to check foo/bar/text()

[mestudd@…]

As a workaround, one can use:

>>> print xml.select('foo/bar').select('text()')
Bar

[cmlenz]

I'm hoping this will be fixed in the next release thanks to a rewrite of the XPath engine during GSoC.

[cmlenz]

Okay, this is now all working since the integration of the GSoC work. I've added the tests you provided in [1041].