Re: Svar: Re: [xml] XPath problem with namespaces

[Fabrice Desré - France Telecom R&D/DTL/TAL <fabrice desre francetelecom com>]

Erik F. Andersen wrote:
> Thanks,
>  
> that was it. I knew I knew it, there was just too much info at once ;-) 
> But why can't it simply register all the namespaces from the document 
> itself in xmlXPathNewContext?

 Because there's no way to predict which prefix will be used in the 
instance (you can even use a default namespace). So you have to bind the 
prefix that you will use in the xpath expression, and it can be 
different from the prefix in the document.

 HTH

        Fabrice
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