Re: [xml] XPATH question when used within namespace

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

The namespace for an element is stored in xmlNodePtr::ns member. 
Namespace *is not*
a part of element name. Hint: what is the difference between
           <aaa:test xmlns:aaa="http://example.org"; />
and
           <bbb:test xmlns:bbb="http://example.org"; />

Please read XML specification.

Aleksey

chris coy . wrote:

>  
> When accessing any given element name within a tree document, the 
> element name stored within xmlNodePtr->name is the element name 
> without the namespace, as one would expect.
>  
> But with XPATH, when trying to access a particular element nodeset 
> that is part of a namespace, the only solution I came upon was to use 
> the contains clause. Is this normal behavior for XPATH or a Gnome 
> feature? Given the following document hierarchy here is my query:
>  
> Envelope-Request
>     Input-Parameters
>          ds:Dataset
>               ds:Row
>  
> XPATH QUERY:
> "//Envelope-Request/Input_Parameters/*[contains(name(),'ds:Dataset')]/*[contains(name(),'ds:Row')]"
>  
> The above query was the only solution I discovered to access the 
> "ds:Row" nodeset 
>  
> Any clarification appreciated.
>
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