Re: [xml] xmlgetNodePath differences on Mac/Win32.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:47:30PM +1100, Andrew Nelson wrote:
> Dear list,
> I am statically compiling libxml into a plugin/dll on both Mac  
> (Tiger) and Win32 (XP ProSP2).
> 
> I am using binary versions libxml2-2.6.30 (iconv-1.9.2 + zlib-1.2.3)  
> on the Win32 platform and libxml2.2.dylib on the Mac.
> I am then using a modification of the tree1.c example to print out a  
> recursive list of all the node paths in the XML file.
> 
> <fragment>
> 
>      for (cur_node = a_node; cur_node ; cur_node = cur_node->next) {
>          if (cur_node->type == XML_ELEMENT_NODE) {
> 			path = xmlGetNodePath(cur_node);
> 
> </fragment>
> 
> However, the xmlChar string from xmlGetNodePath() on Win32 and Mac is  
> different!  On Mac I get something like:
> 
> /xrdMeasurements
> /xrdMeasurements/comment
> /xrdMeasurements/comment/entry
> 
> on Win32 I get
> 
> /*
> /*/*[1]
> /*/*[1]/*
> 
> For me the second is useless, is there something I have forgotten to  
> do on win32?  Or can anyone suggest code to get the same results I  
> get on the Mac?

  on the Windows version you used a different document with a default
namespace. Your test is bogus,

Daniel

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