On 3/6/07, Nikolay Samokhvalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/6/07, Mike Rylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Attatched you'll find a patch that I've been kicking around for a
> while that I'd like to propose for inclusion in 8.3. I attempted to
> submit this through the original xml2 author (as far back as the 7.4
> days) but got no response.
>
> It's really fairly trivial, but I will be using the features it
> provides in production soon, so I'd like to see it applied against the
> contrib xml2 module. The patch adds support for default XML
> namespaces in xml2 by providing a mechanism for supplying a prefix to
> a named namespace URI. It then wraps the namespace-capable functions
> in backward-compatible equivalents so that old code will not break.
1) And what about non-default namespaces?
I'm not sure I understand. If the namespace already has a prefix then
it works fine. This patch simply gives a known non-prefixed namespace
URI a prefix so one can write XPath that looks like
//marc:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'245']/marc:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'a']
instead of
//*[local-name()='datafield' and
@tag='245']/*[local-name()='subfied' and @code='a']
A little two node example is painful enough, now imagine a non-trivial
example with backtracking conditionals... :P
2) What if my XPath query has different prefix, that also should be
mapped to the same URI? (Not frequent case, but this really can occur
-- e.g. XML doc has prefix 'local' for URI='http://127.0.0.1', but
XPath should have 'loc' for the same URI.)
Both prefixes work fine as multiple prefixes can map to the same URI.
--
Best regards,
Nikolay
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Mike Rylander
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