Re: [xml] xmllint --shell : xpath is not working? (libxml2-2.6.4)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:42:43AM +0100, Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi hi,
>
> can anyone confirm and/or explain that?

  Confirm taht it is actually working,

> > xmllint --shell giml/gitkTemplate_message.xml
> <giml xmlns="http://gitk.sourceforge.net/";
[...]
>       <widget id="Message" type="label"/>
[...]
> / > xpath //widget
> Object is a Node Set :
> Set contains 0 nodes:
> / >

  it's an XPath FAQ, a non qualified name do not select namespaced nodes.
And widget is in the "http://gitk.sourceforge.net/"; namespace.
You can try xpath //*[localname = 'widget'] to confirm this.
XPath wasn't designed to be used in isolation, the specifications
embedding it have to provide the mechanism to bind namespaces,
then something like //gimp:widget would work.

Daniel

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