I'm new to lxml. I've parsed a simple document, as shown below. But I
every simple xpath() expression I try returns empty list. What am I
doing wrong? Perhaps I need to spec the namespace to the parser?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata";>
<types>
<members>*</members>
<name>CustomObject</name>
</types>
<version>16.0</version>
</Package>
self.doc = etree.parse( self.package_xml_path )
(Pdb) root = self.doc.getroot()
(Pdb) root.getchildren()
[<Element {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}types at e1dc60>,
<Element {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}version at e1dc90>]
(Pdb) root.xpath('//Package')
[]
(Pdb) root.xpath('/Package')
[]
(Pdb) root.xpath('Package')
[]
(Pdb) root.xpath('types')
[]
(Pdb) root.xpath('/types')
[]
===== environment ====
Python 2.5.2
lxml-2.2-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg
OSX 10.5.7
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