Re: [xml] Crashes trying XPath stuff with Python bindings

[Gary Coady <gary lyranthe org>]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing here, thus I'm not (yet) filing a
> bugreport. I want to use the python bindings for libxml2 and thus
> installed libxml2 (2.6.26) and libxslt (1.1.17). Now doing my first
> steps results in crashes of the python interpreter:
>
> > > > import libxml2
> > > > doc=libxml2.parseFile('/home/andreas/temp/file1.xml')
> > > > xpath=libxml2.xpathContext(doc)
> > > > result=xpath.xpathEvalExpression('//body')

I'll have to let somebody else comment on whether that *should* work
(there's no dictionary, so I guess the code should create one?), and I'm
not sure if that method is supposed to be used by external users.

But you should be able to get past the problem with

import libxml2
doc = libxml2.parseFile('/home/andreas/temp/file1.xml')
xpath = doc.xpathNewContext()
result = xpath.xpathEvalExpression('//body')

Gary.