[SR-Users] xmlops & XPath question

[Alex Balashov]

On 05/03/2014 04:31 AM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:

> This kind usage of xmlns in an xml doc is a hack done by SIMPLE WG
> breaking XML standard, because any ns has to use a prefix for each
> corresponding name. If you search on google, you will fine some
> discussions on the web (iirc, Inaki was there as well) - libxml2 devs
> said they don't want to break the xml standard to handle this case,
> probably they didn't change the mind meanwhile.
>
> Anyhow, set a prefix for the namespace via xml_ns parameter and then use
> it in xpath
>
> modparam("xmlops", "xml_ns", "di=urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:dialog-info")
>
> $xml(u=>xpath:/di:dialog-info/di:dialog[1]/di:state/text())
>
> Hope i remembered correctly, anyhow it is somewhere in this direction.
> If not, search on mailing list archive, the situation popped up few
> times around.

Thanks Daniel. I was heading in this direction, too, before I got lazy 
and just hacked out the xmlns attribute with {re.subst}. :-)

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