Re: GSXPathContext examples ?

[Philippe Roussel]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:56:15PM +0100, Nicola Pero wrote:
> Yes, GSXPathContext has been/is being used succesfully in production systems. 
> :-)
> 
> Here is a trivial example which I just made up:
> 
> <test>
>   <item>
>     <description>This is an item</description>
>     <number>1</number>
>   </item>
>   <item>
>     <description>This is another item</description>
>     <number>2</number>
>   </item>
> </test>
> 
> Here are a few demo XPath queries (tested with gnustep-base 1.14.0 + libxml 
> 2.6.16):
> 
> 'string(/test/item[1]/description/text())' returns the GSXPathString 'This is 
> an item'
> 
> 'string(/test/item[2]/description/text())' returns the GSXPathString 'This is 
> another item'
> 
> '//number' returns a GSXPathNodeSet containing two XML_ELEMENT_NODEs, for the 
> two
> tags <number>

Thanks Nicola, now I figured out that my code doesn't work because of
namespaces. My data starts with 
<D:multistatus xmlns:ap="http://apache.org/dav/props/"; xmlns:D="DAV:"> 
and if I remove all 'D:' and 'ap:' from it my queries work
beautifully. I tried using namespaces in the query (as in "//D:href")
but I can't make it work. Would you have any pointer on how to deal
with namespaces with GNUstep XPath tools ?

Philippe
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