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Re: [xml] xmllint - Browsing in file with default namespace



On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Thomas Larsen Wessel <mrvelle gmail com> wrote:
As far as I have been told, xmllint should offer a command line tool to work with xml, and than includes xhtml.

But it seems that I can not browse around in the xmllint shell, when the xml file has a default namespace. E.g. as in this file, minimum.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
 "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
ÂÂÂ <head> <title> minimum </title> </head>
ÂÂÂ <body>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ <p> Time for text </p>
ÂÂÂ </body>
</html>

Now trying to use the xmllint shell from command line:
mik borneo:~$ xmllint --shell foo.xml
/ > cd html
html is a 0 Node Set
/ >

If I remove the line "xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", then I can browse around.

How can I browse around a document with a default namespace?
Register the name space in the shell:

/ > setns x=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
/ > cd x:html

If you want to avoid the registration of namespaces you can also use xpath xpressions:
/ > cd *
html > cd *[1]
head >

But you will be better with namespaces :)

--
Emmanuel Rodriguez
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