Re: [xml] XPath and default namespaces (bet you're sick of this by now :) )

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:38:45AM +0100, Balint Joo wrote:
> Hence my natural inclination for defining the default namespace for 
> XPath would be to pass a NULL prefix to xmlXPathRegisterNs, which of 
> course the above code snippet immediately rejects as erroneous.

  You cannot define a default namespace for XPath, period, don't
try you can't, the XPath spec does not allow it. This can't work
and trying to add it to libxml2 would simply make it non conformant
to the spec.

  In a nutshell forget about using default namespace within
XPath expressions, this will *never* work, you *can't* !

    Thanks,

Daniel

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