Re: [xml] xmlGetNodePath and default namespaces

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:02:56AM -0500, Andrew Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been writing some code using the version of libxml2 that is  
> shipped with OS X 10.4 and using xmlGetNodePath to list the elements  
> in my files (which use a default namespace). I recently switched to  
> the latest version and now, instead of a listing of names I get  
> things like /*/*[3].
>
> Looking at the archives and the code I see that in tree.c there is a  
> comment (around line 4318) that says:
>
>      /*
>      * We cannot express named elements in the default
>      * namespace, so use "*".
>      */
>
> I understand that this change was to ensure that XPath useable  
> strings were returned, but that doesn't do me any good as I don't  
> know what I'm getting back if I use the string since I don't know  
> what the element is.
>
> How should I go about extracting the names of the elements?

The name is part of the node structure for elements, attributes, etc...
so if elem->type is XML_ELEMENT_NODE you can get them as:
  elem->name
  elem->parent->name
  etc...

Daniel

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