Re: [xml] Do patterns support namespaces ?

[Jason Viers <lists beanalby net>]

On 10/24/2011 12:14, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> I still don't know what that --pattern switch is supposed to
> do, but I cannot see how it is supposed to cope with namespace
> prefixes;

"man xmllint" says:
--pattern PATTERNVALUE
              Used to exercise the pattern recognition engine, which 
can be used with the reader interface to the parser. It allows to select
              some nodes in the document based on an XPath (subset) 
expression. Used for debugging.

So it's BASED on XPath, but doesn't support everything xpath does.  Even 
if it was full XPath, there's no way to register a napespace prefix with 
it, so there would be no way to do a selection like "//a:b" via the 
--pattern switch.

Michael's suggestion is correct - this quick "pattern" test won't get 
you what you want, try a full program with registerNs to make the 
prefixes usable.

Jason