Re: [xml] XPath queries on document fragments without a document

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:50:18PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > THE SOLUTION, is to keep a surrounding document element, as well as
> > a fake root element to encapsulate the well-balanced chunk and run the
> > query on this perfectly well defined document. 
>
> Ahh, heh.
>
> > A document fragment ain't an XML document. Make it a document and
> > everything becomes smooth,
>
> Alrighty, groovy.  Just thought there could be an easy fix.  ::shrug::

  Well the XPath data model is defined pretty strongly, and for a reason,
if you break that universe, a lot of bad things can happen.

> Hey, fwiw, if anyone's interested in a libxml/libxslt bindings for
> Ruby, let me know.  They're adhering to the C API so far but aren't
> finished and should be pretty easy to use.  -sc

  Hum, I love to heard about bindings for new language, but I'm wondering
how this relates to the existing Ruby bindings at :
    http://www.rubycolor.org/arc/redist/
as pointed from:
   http://xmlsoft.org/python.html

  Are the old ones unusable, or unmaintained ?
Also do you plan to provide XSLT extensions using Ruby (like Matt Sergeant
did with the latest XML::LibXSLT release) ?

Daniel

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