Re: [xml] xpathEval and namespaces

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:47:43PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> With this even docroot.xpathEval('/head') gives an empty nodeset back
> (docroot is my root node object), while it works fine when I remove
> the namespace attributes.

  that's normal /foo does not select namespaced nodes, it's the XPath spec.
It's probably #1 FAQ for XPath. As explained dozens of time you must 
bin a prefix to that namespace in the XPath context and use the prefix in
the query. I don't remember if/how it's doable from Python.

Daniel

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