Re: [xml] string-range in xpointers from python?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:48:11PM -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> Hey all - 
> We're trying to use the libxml2 python bindings to play some games with
> 'marking up' an xml document, based on xpointers coming out of various
> checkers and annotators. We need string-range for cases like spell-check
> or arbitrary annotation.
>
> Is the string-range function just not implemented from the python
> bindings? I'm getting 'unregistered function':
>
> > > > ctx.xpointerEval('xpointer(string-range(/,"Geometric"))')
> xmlXPathCompOpEval: function string-range not found
> Unregistered function
> xmlXPtrEval: evaluation failed to return a node set
> xmlXPtrEval: object(s) left on the eval stack
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 6922, in
> xpointerEval    if ret is None:raise treeError('xmlXPtrEval() failed')
> libxml2.treeError: xmlXPtrEval() failed
> > > >

  are you sure ctx is an XPointer context and not an XPath context ?

Daniel

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