Re: [xml] xmllint -shell and namespaces?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:15:58PM -0400, Artur Klauser wrote:
> So, if "cd foo" does not work, what does? - other than anonymous 
> references like the above "cd node()".

  the command uses an XPath argument. in XPath "foo" selects 
children element of name foo but without namespace. So that's normal.

> BTW, I have similar problems if the namespace is explicit, ie. if all tags 
> are prefixed with say f: and I declare xmlns:f="http://a.com/foo"; in the 
> document root element. Here, neither "cd foo" nor "cd f:foo" do the trick.

  yes because at the shell level there is no way to bind namespaces to 
prefixes for XPath expressions (patch welcome could be simple).
  You can use  local-name() and namespace-uri() XPath functions in the mean
time
    cd *[local-name() = 'foo']

  See: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-local-name

Daniel

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