Re: [xml] XPath and namespaces

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:20:51PM +0200, Petr Novak wrote:
> I read at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-December/msg00186.html
> that it can be solbed by xmlXPathRegisterNs(). So I tried
> 
>   xmlXPathRegisterNs(context, NULL, "http://www.liberouter.org";);
> or
>   xmlXPathRegisterNs(context, "", "http://www.liberouter.org";);
> 
> (because I don't use prefix), bud it still not works. What am I doing
> wrong?

  Because as XPath is specified the name foo will *never* match 
an element (or attribute) named foo in a namespace. Read the XPath
spec that's defined there, I pointed it in the list at least a dozen
time already I'm sure. You must set a prefix in the XPath and register
the prefix.

Daniel

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