Re: [xml] relative xpath matches nodes anywhere in tree

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:19:49PM -0400, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
> >  xmlXPathNewContext doesn't set the context node, it set it to NULL,
> > if you keep it NULL all relative evaluations will fail (which sounds
> > the right thing to me at the XPath level) but kind of weird from an
> > user point of view, so initializing to the document node sounds the best
> > to me.
>
> Sure, but is there a way for a user to discover this, beside asking on
> the mailing list?

  Hum, no it's really specific to xmllint, this could be added to the
man page :-)

> > > Actually it is related, because XMLStarlet has the exact same bug as xmllint.
> >
> >  okay, but a priori that's not the same initialization code path, i.e.
> > different bug :-)
>
> Except that it was probably copied from xmllint, so it's the same bug :p

 okay :-)

Daniel

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