Joachim Zobel schrieb am 24.10.2011 um 07:34 (+0200): > On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 23:49 +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > There is a namespace prefix in your pattern that cannot be > > bound to a namespace because you didn't declare any. > > Yeah, missed that. > > jo@vostro:~$ echo '<?xml version="1.0"?><dummy xmlns:a="test"/>' | > xmllint --pattern "//a:b" - > Pattern //a:b failed to compile
To clarify: The prefix has to be bound where the pattern using the prefix is to be compiled. In your example, you're declaring (but not using) it on the doc; but that doesn't automagically provide the pattern to the bit of code that is instructed to compile the pattern. Check out the registerNs method (as well as the other register* methods) in the Perl interface to libxml2 for an example of what I'm referring to. I still don't know what that --pattern switch is supposed to do, but I cannot see how it is supposed to cope with namespace prefixes; it seems to be lacking the command line equivalent of the registerNs method. Michael _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
