Re: [xml] Re: [gnomemm] ANNOUNCE: libxml++ is now sane.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:17:13PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > > I, too, have an API enhancement suggestion: Please consider a
> > > method 'Node::lookup(const std::string &xpath)' that does an xpath
> > > lookup (surprize !) and returns a NodeSet. I'v written my own C++
> > > wrapper around libxml2 and this method is incredibly useful in my
> > > work...
> >
> > Seconded, I did that for the Python bindings too and use it
> > everywhere It's extremely convenient.
>
> The ruby API uses the method 'find' and accepts an xpath expression.
> Could we standardize all of these language bindings on a single name?

  Hum, that would be "evaluate" <grin/>
    http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath/xpath.html#XPathEvaluator

Daniel

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