[xml] XPATH question when used within namespace

["chris coy ." <chrisccoy hotmail com>]

 

When accessing any given element name within a tree document, the element name stored within xmlNodePtr->name is the element name without the namespace, as one would expect.

 

But with XPATH, when trying to access a particular element nodeset that is part of a namespace, the only solution I came upon was to use the contains clause. Is this normal behavior for XPATH or a Gnome feature? Given the following document hierarchy here is my query:

 

Envelope-Request

    Input-Parameters

         ds:Dataset

              ds:Row

 

XPATH QUERY:

"//Envelope-Request/Input_Parameters/*[contains(name(),'ds:Dataset')]/*[contains(name(),'ds:Row')]"

 

The above query was the only solution I discovered to access the "ds:Row" nodeset 

 

Any clarification appreciated.

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