Re: [xml] xpath and element names

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:05:20PM -0500, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using libxml2 Version: 2.6.29 on fc7, with the xpath functionality,
> to parse an XML document.
[...]
> Line 83 shows an attempt to fetch the name of the root element, but I'm
> not getting any results.  What's the approach to fetching the name of an
> element in libxml2's xpath support?

  in XPath it's name() / local-name() see the spec, of course it's the
same in libxml2 !

    http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-name

For XPath querying example:
    http://xmlsoft.org/examples/index.html#XPath

Daniel
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