Re: [xml] xpath and libxml2

[Jordan Soet <jds interchange ubc ca>]

Ugh, thanks, that looks like what it is, I can't believe I didn't realize.

Thanks,
Jordan

Richard Whitney wrote:
> Jordan,
>
> I haven't looked at the document but it may be a namespace issue. 
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard Whitney
> Juniper Networks, Inc.
> Systems Engineer
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: xml-bounces gnome org <xml-bounces gnome org>
> To: xml gnome org <xml gnome org>
> Sent: Mon Mar 31 23:45:33 2008
> Subject: [xml] xpath and libxml2
>
> Hi, I'm new to libxml2 and I'm trying to use it but am running into some
> problems. I tried to make a simple little program that just reads in a
> file and parses it and then does an xpath expression on it and gets the
> results. This code is based on the tutorial code and is pretty simple,
> but my problem is that no matter what I give it it doesn't get any
> results for the xpath expressions. So I looked into it and tried to use
> xmllint to see if it was a problem with my xpath expressions, but using
> the same xpath expressions I can't seem to get any results. The xml file
> can be obtained here:
> http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=1300+Broadway+Vancouver&output=xml&key=ABQIAAAAAN8eDSpI1QCzpURVIocVORSTuINrySDz4vVB9J1dyT9J6dIEMxTbS8_8zwSD2QbnLmdqNQhhGfgFcw
>
> and I tried expressions like "//Placemark", "/kml" and tons of other
> stuff but they all just give me the response "Object is a node set: Set
> contains 0 nodes"... I've tried it with other xml documents and they
> seem to work as I'd expect, but for some reason I can't seem to get this
> one to work... I also tried the document on this site that I found (
> http://www.whitebeam.org/library/guide/TechNotes/xpathtestbed.rhtm )
> using the same expressions and it worked fine there...
>
> Can anyone help me? It would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jordan
>
> p.s. I'm sorry, I'm not sure if this is the right place to send messages
> about this, but I'm kind of stuck, and didn't know where to turn to.
>
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