Re: [xml] XPath problem

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:56:00AM +0100, Petr Pajas wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:16:21PM +0100, Marek Elsner wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I have got problem with XPath.
> >> When following program is run "./program hello.xml, ( hello.xml is under
> >> source code of program)
> >> it doesn't show node <marek>
> >
> > [...]
> >   xmlns="urn:iana:xml:ns:epp-1.0"
> >
> > marek is in a namespace. The "//marek" XPath expression won't select
> > it. The XPath spec is at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
> > this issue is an XPath FAQ, it's just that lixml2 implements the spec !
> >
> > Daniel
> 
> Marek, 
> 
> although this as been asked and answered zillion times on this list,
> I'd just add to Daniel, that you may still programmatically register a
> namespace prefix for "urn:iana:xml:ns:epp-1.0" (say "foo") with the
> xpath context, using something like
> 
> xmlXPathRegisterNs(context, "foo", "urn:iana:xml:ns:epp-1.0");
> 
> and then use it in your queries as "//foo:marek".
> 
> It's much shorter that writing the pure XPath like 
> //*[local-name()="marek" and namespace-uri()="urn:iana:xml:ns:epp-1.0"].

  Right and see xpath1.c full example 
    http://xmlsoft.org/examples/index.html#XPath

Daniel

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