Re: [xml] xmllint -shell and namespaces

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:51:07PM -0500, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the latest libxml2-2.4.0, if I run 'xmllint -shell' on a file that
> contains
>
>   <foo:bar xmlns:foo="http://foo.com";>Hello, World</foo:bar>
>
> I can't seem to be able to navigate to the 'foo:bar' node with either
> the 'cd foo:bar' (Undefined namespace prefix) or the 'cd bar' command
> (bar is a 0 Node Set).  What's the proper way to get into that node?

  Hum, the shell is somewhat ancient code, though I started using
it for regression tests for 2.4.0 . It needs some cleanup, and in this
case the XPath is called without giving the list of in-scope namespaces
so this doesn't work. Should not be too had to fix. I should add an
help command too listing what commands are available.
  Ideally I would like to add interfaces for a lot of tree manipulations
so it could be used for doing serious regression tests over the interfaces
provided in tree.h , patches welcome :-)

Daniel

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