Re: [xml] XPath on a subtree

[Alex Bligh <alex alex org uk>]

On 23 Mar 2013, at 13:54, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>  I though I had added a macro but searched for it an no it's not there.
> In the python bindings there is an extra function called
>
> libxml2mod.xmlXPathSetContextNode()

That was what I was thinking of, but ...

> xmlXPathObjectPtr
> xmlXPathNodeEval(xmlNodePtr node, const xmlChar *str, xmlXPathContextPtr ctx)
>
> as a simple wrapper around xmlXPathEval

... that would be equally useful.

> actually it's good to set the doc too at that point before reusing
> the context in the loop.
>
>      ctxt->doc = doc;

Isn't the doc set when you create the context? xmlXPathNewContext takes
a doc ptr.

-- 
Alex Bligh