Re: [xml] xmlParseFile and xmlns

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:24:51AM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> Juhani Connolly schrieb:
>> If anyone knows what causes this issue and how to get around it
>> correctly I would really appreciate any solution/explanation that
>> could be given.
>
> I don't know the C API, but you have to register namespaces with
> prefixes in the XPath context and then search for //atom:item. Maybe
> this pointer to the API doc will lead you on the right track:
>
> http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xpath.html#xmlXPathContext

  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xpathInternals.html#xmlXPathRegisterNs

  xmlXPathRegisterNs is what you need. You create the XPath context for
the document, register the namespace with a non-null prefix e.g. atom
and add the prefix to the query as indicated.

daniel

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