Re: [xml] Namespace in XPath

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:42:32PM -0700, Sze, Tak F wrote:
> I tried using namespace in XPath, and it does not seem to work:
>
>    <doc xmlns:test="http://test.com";>
>      <test:element>test</test:element>
>    </doc>
>
> XPath used is "/doc/test:element"
>
> Is there another interface to pass the namespace URI mapping
> for the prefix used in the XPath expression?

  Use xmlXPathRegisterNs () to register the namespace within
the evaluation context.
   http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xpathinternals.html#XMLXPATHREGISTERNS

Or use the local-name() and namespace-uri() functions of XPath
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-local-name
  /*[local-name()='element' and namespace-uri()='http://test.com']

Daniel

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