Hi, I just wanted to give libxml a go, because it seemed quite a bit faster than my current solution.
The docs for XML::XPath.find suggest that if I omit the namespace specification, then "matching nodes from any namespace will be included". My problem is that when I fed it an XML file with a DOCTYPE declaration and a namespace spec on the root node, no matter what element name I was trying to search for, it returned an empty result set. I could work around the problem by removing *both* the DOCTYPE and the NS attribute from the root node; in this case simple unqualified element names were found. I could also have it to find what I'm looking for by specifying a "prefix:ns_uri" as the second parameter to #find, and have any element names in my xpath be qualified by the specified prefix. This however is an overkill for me, as the whole document has one single namespace, so I really don't want any NS-based filtering on my xpath query. So the question is, why doesn't it find unqualified element names when I omit the second parameter from #find, and how could I achieve it? thx mortee _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
