Actually, it is working. When I constructed a simple example, it worked, so I went back to my original problem and found an error in the XInclude expression. Sorry for the noise.
Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Veillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob Stayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [xml] xpointer xmlns() scheme? > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:00:07AM -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: >> I'm a big fan of XInclude, and I use xmllint and xsltproc extensively >> because they support the xpointer() scheme of XInclude. I recently >> tried >> to process some DocBook5 documents which are in the docbook namespace, >> and >> I'm not having much luck. It seems the xmlns() scheme must be specified >> as >> part of the xpointer attribute for the include element, but it doesn't >> seem >> to work in libxml2. >> >> <xi:include href="booktest5.xml" >> xpointer="xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook) >> xpointer(//db:dedication)" >> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> >> >> Am I doing something wrong, or is xmlns() not supported with the >> xpointer >> scheme? > > That looks right, and libxml2 has the xmlns() scheme support compiled in > if xpointer. However I don't see any test in the regression suite > covering > xmlns(), the code in xpointer.c looks fine though, it registers the > binding > in the XPath context. If you could make a tiny example showing the > problem > with xmllint ... > Might be broken though: > > paphio:~/XML -> cat test.xml > <bar xmlns="http://foo/"/> > paphio:~/XML -> testXPath --xptr > 'xmlns(foo=http://foo/)xpointer(//foo:bar)' test.xml > Object is empty (NULL) > Object is a Node Set : > Set contains 0 nodes: > paphio:~/XML -> testXPath --xptr 'xpointer(//foo:bar)' test.xml > XPath error : Undefined namespace prefix > Object is empty (NULL) > Object is a Node Set : > Set contains 0 nodes: > paphio:~/XML -> > > Daniel > > -- > Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ > Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ > http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ > > _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
