Re: [xml] Help

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:51:15AM -0700, nitin singh wrote:
> Hello, 
> I am having difficulty in understanding how namespace
> nodes are dealt in libxml.
> At run time I get pointer to an element node say E. I
> want to create a XPath nodeset such that it contains E
> as well as its children(text nodes, elements etc.) and
> namespace nodes(the namespace axis), attribute nodes
> of E and its descendents.
> Finaly i will canonicalize it.

  Use the existing c14n code available in libxml2

> Please help, as when i was reading libxml, xpath.c, it
> says that the treatment for namespace nodes is
> different.

  Yes XPath notion of namespace node does *not* match libxml2
namespace implementation. In a nutshell the XPath engine duplicates
namespaces nodes when they are in a nodeset result.
  You should not have to mess with that level, and if you do
a simple mail won't be enough to replace reading the code,

Daniel

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