Re: [xml] XPath and default namespaces (bet you're sick of this by now :) )

[Balint Joo <bj ph ed ac uk>]

Hi Daniel,
        That answer solves my problem in a very elegant way ! :)
(ie: with no extra work on my part).

        Many thanks,
        Balint


Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:38:45AM +0100, Balint Joo wrote:
>
> > Hence my natural inclination for defining the default namespace for 
> > XPath would be to pass a NULL prefix to xmlXPathRegisterNs, which of 
> > course the above code snippet immediately rejects as erroneous.
>
>
>   You cannot define a default namespace for XPath, period, don't
> try you can't, the XPath spec does not allow it. This can't work
> and trying to add it to libxml2 would simply make it non conformant
> to the spec.
>
>   In a nutshell forget about using default namespace within
> XPath expressions, this will *never* work, you *can't* !
>
>     Thanks,
>
> Daniel



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