Hi Flibbles, Oh now I see, thank you for your explanation! Your quote of the MDN documentation is very telling indeed :-(
After all, writing templates dedicated to retrieving data deeply hidden in an XML file is normally a one-time task: once written, a given path should apply to any instance of the same schema. With the current features of your plugin, it is already handy to write collections of such templates. Thanks again, -- Xavier. On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:54 PM Flibbles <[email protected]> wrote: > Xavier, I totally agree. Having to prefix those default namespaces in your > queries is not optimal. > > My last message may have given the impression that my current solution was > my choice, but it was a choice the same way saying you quit right after > your boss fires you is a choice. The browsers are all limited to XPath 1.0, > and this is taken straight from the MDN documentation: > > XPath defines QNames without a prefix to match only elements in the null >> namespace. There is no way in XPath to pick up the default namespace as >> applied to a regular element reference (e.g., p[@id='_myid'] for xmlns=' >> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'). To match default elements in a non-null >> namespace, you either have to refer to a particular element using a form >> such as ['namespace-uri()='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' and name()='p' >> and @id='_myid'] (this approach >> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript#Using_XPath_functions_to_reference_elements_with_a_default_namespace> >> works well for dynamic XPath's where the namespaces might not be known) or >> use prefixed name tests, and create a namespace resolver mapping the prefix >> to the namespace. >> > > If I wanted to allow implied default namespaces in the queries possible, > I'd either need to dynamically remove namespaces from the XML document (my > first few attempts at this didn't work). Or dynamically add the namespace > prefixes to the queries (I... I really don't want to do this. This is one > step below reimplementing XPath for myself.) > > I'll continue to look into ways to improve default namespace support; I'll > try scrubbing namespaces from the DOM again, but for now, the current > implementation may be what we get. > > -Flibbles > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b74da421-a4ff-45b6-8258-dd3c31d1e10f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b74da421-a4ff-45b6-8258-dd3c31d1e10f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CADeSwYMc2FocNAT6US98%2BdhknSdpLg4f2bMSHXFu1KBF8sdL9A%40mail.gmail.com.
