Re: namespacing fun(?)

Hi please provide the shortest possible example of your code and/or file a bug. this should actually work as you suggested. I don't think it's a PHP problem.. chregu On 1/30/04 5:48 PM, Daniel Pupius wrote:

Hey there, I'm using the DOM XML and XPATH queries. My application has to accept XML formats based on an IMS standard, both generated in our company and externally by others. Now the problem, most people use the same naming convensions for namespaces, but a couple of people do not. This causes the XPATH queries to fail. For example, consider the following XML documents: <demo xmlns="http://somenamespace"> <node>

    <child />
    <child />

</node> </demo> <ns:demo xmlns:ns="http://somenamespace"> <ns:node>

    <ns:child />
    <ns:child />

</ns:node> </ns:demo> <fun:demo xmlns:fun="http://somenamespace"> <fun:node>

    <fun:child />
    <fun:child />

</fun:node> </fun:demo> They all represent the same structure, bound to the same namespace. And are thus all esentially equal to: <http://somenamespace:demo> .... etc .... </http://somenamespace:demo> When creating the XPATH queries, you'd register the namespace:

    xpath_register_ns($xpath,"ns", "http://somenamespace");

And format your queries like so:

    /ns:demo/ns:node/ns:child

I'd expect this to match all the above xml files, since the "ns" in the xpath query refers to the namespace rather than the textual abrieviation of the namespace. Am I correct in this assumption? Of course, it doens't seem to work with PHPs parser. I was therefore wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to get round this problem... Cheers Dan

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