XmlPeek with XPath functions
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Description
### What You Are Seeing?
XmlPeek is not working properly with XPath functions.
### What is Expected?
It works.
### What version of Cake are you using?
0.17
### Are you running on a 32 or 64 bit system?
64bit
### What environment are you running on? Windows? Linux? Mac?
Windows 10
### Are you running on a CI Server? If so, which one?
No.
### How Did You Get This To Happen? (Steps to Reproduce)
XmlPeek seems to be not happy with XPath functions. For example, querying string works as expected:
```c#
var packageType = XmlPeek(config, "/Config/Package/@type");
```
But not with functions like `string-length`:
```c#
var packageType = XmlPeek(config, "string-length(/Config/Package/@type)");
```
It throws ` System.Xml.XPath.XPathException` saying `Expression must evaluate to a node-set`.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the XmlPeek entry point and reproduce the two XPath expressions from the issue on Cake 0.17 or the relevant current code. Compare the node-selection query with the string-length query and identify the existing handling for XPath results. Done means XPath functions no longer raise the reported node-set exception while the existing query still works.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100