Re: [xml] Default namespaces with XPath

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 01:42:40PM +0530, Ganesh Sivaraman wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm still learning the ropes with XML. I understand I can use XPath to access particular nodes in the 
> DOM tree.
> I have a xml doc. with default namespaces as below:
[...]
> What am I doing wrong and how do I use XPath with default namespaces?

  You cannot, it's a restriction of the XPath specification !
You have to define a prefix for the namespace, register it with
xmlXPathRegisterNs() and use that prefix in the XPath expression.
There is no way around this, this is defined in the XPath spec
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests


Daniel

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