* however I can't get _any_ search results when looking for elements in a document that has specified a namespace, but with the default/ empty prefix.
You have to make whatever default namespaces you use explicit, e.g., try something like this example for xhtml: items = doc.find '//x:span', "x:http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" The original poster said that //* wasn't returning anything, which I can't duplicate: it returns everything for me, which I believe is the correct behavior. _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel