Re: [xml] Using xpointer with xmllint

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:20:10PM +0100, stuart shepherd wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm having trouble using xpointer with an xinclude.
[...]
> control.xml
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <root>
> <control>
>     <id>8</id>
>     <name>ValidHd</name>
>     ......
> </control>
> </root>
>
> and I validate it with
>
> xmllint --valid --xinclude --schema schema.xsd Xpointer.xml
>
> and that works fine. But when I change the xinclude to
>
> <xi:include href="control.xml" xpointer="xpointer(//control[../name =
> 'ValidHd'])"/>

  Seems your XPath expression won't select what you expect, the
//control select the nodes you intent but then you condition that
on a test using ../name. And there is no ../name for that control
node only a name child.
  use xmllint --shell control.xml
and then test your XPath expressions with the xpath shell command,

Daniel

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