[snip]
> <paragraph id="01" style="para01"></paragraph>
^^^^
[snip]
> xpath_bool(rawdata,'/mydocument/body/chapter/contents/paragraph[objid="2_1"]');
^^^^^
To me it looks like attribute name mismatch, not to mention you forgot
the '@' (i.e. I guess you wanted the xpath:
'/mydocument/body/chapter/contents/paragraph[@id="2_1"]'
If you were just sloppy writing the email, maybe you should also check
your actual code for such sloppiness ;-)
Cheers,
Csaba.