Re: [xml] xmlCopyNode that doesn't copy a namespace?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0000, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I still haven't got an answer on my question to the XPath problem I  
> was having. In the meantime I've written my own Xpath query function,  
> which is actually more faster and simple to use than the standard  
> XPath.

  What you implemented is NOT XPath. You break the XPath semantic.
    //foo CANNOT select a node which has a namespace even if it's a
default namespace. This is the #1 question of all XPath beginners, not
only you felt in the trap, apparently you didn't checked archives and
decided to implemnent a broken implementation instead, sounds positively
awful !

> I'd still like an answer on the XPath problem I posted here,  
> though. Because I'd like to use the standard tools whereever possible  
> instead of having to write my own alternatives.
>
> So, I got this problem with xmlCopyNode, it's putting a namespace  
> into the XML, when I don't actually want one there.

  You copy a namespaced element node you gate a namespaced element node
the namespace is as important as the element name in a processor conformant
to XML namespace. You're asking to create a different element, not a copy !

Daniel

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