That does it. Thank you :)

Thomas

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Emmanuel Rodriguez <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Thomas Larsen Wessel 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> As far as I have been told, xmllint should offer a command line tool to
>> work with xml, and than includes xhtml.
>>
>> But it seems that I can not browse around in the xmllint shell, when the
>> xml file has a default namespace. E.g. as in this file, minimum.xml:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
>>   "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>>   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>>     <head> <title> minimum </title> </head>
>>     <body>
>>         <p> Time for text </p>
>>     </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> Now trying to use the xmllint shell from command line:
>> m...@borneo:~$ xmllint --shell foo.xml
>> / > cd html
>> html is a 0 Node Set
>> / >
>>
>> If I remove the line "xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";, then I can
>> browse around.
>>
>> How can I browse around a document with a default namespace?
>>
> Register the name space in the shell:
>
> / > setns x=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
> / > cd x:html
>
> If you want to avoid the registration of namespaces you can also use xpath
> xpressions:
> / > cd *
> html > cd *[1]
> head >
>
> But you will be better with namespaces :)
>
> --
> Emmanuel Rodriguez
>
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