Re: [libxml++] xpath with namespaces

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 19:51 -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I saw this post sometime in July, and now I am running into the same
> problem.  Does anyone have an answer for this?

So can you answer my question?

Is there actually an error in the document?

>  Hello,
>  
>  I"m trying to use XPaths on documents which use namespaces (e.g. 
>  libxml++-2.6.1/examples/sax_exception/example.xml). My code looks like this:
>  
>  xmlpp::DomParser dp;
>  dp.parse_file("example.xml");
>  xmlpp::Document* doc = dp.get_document();
>  xmlpp::Element* root = doc->get_root_node();
>  xmlpp::NodeSet set = root->find("//gjob:Jobs");
>  
>  If I use "//gjob:Jobs" i get "XPath error : Undefined namespace prefix", 
>  and "//Jobs" just returns an empty set.
>  I assume I have to register the namespace first, but I couldn"t find 
>  anything about this in the documentation.
>  
>  thanks in advance for your help.
>  
>  Thomas Volpini
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Curtis
> 
> 
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