Re: [xml] Which XPATH syntax does xmlstarlet support?

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 19:04 -0500, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
> When I try to hand xmlstarlet the same XPATH query syntax I use in 
> Chrome
> and Firefox, xmlstarlet never seems to find any results. Is there a 
> document detailing the idiosyncrasies of xmlstarlet XPATH vs WebKit 
> XPATH,
> so that I know how to convert my browser queries into xmlstarlet-
> compatible
> queries?

The most likely incompatibility is that Web browsers violate the XPath 
spec to ignore namespaces, and libxml follows the spec.

Next most is that Web browsers don't fetch DTDs, but that's less 
likely to be the issue.

Liam

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