Hi, The namespace code within xpath.find is rather oddly written and struck me as such at the time I was re-writing xpath.find. I had to leave it alone, as scope expansion during such an operation is hazardous. Now that you are having trouble with it, maybe I can figure out what it is supposed to do (and is clearly not).
To do this, please send a sample xml document and ruby code using libxml that illustrates the problem clearly and (hopefully) compactly and indicate what you are expecting but not getting and I will peer into the fog of namespaces (a component I have not updated). Dan On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:26, mortee wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
