On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:25 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Ah, you didn't provide that information in your initial post. So you > control neither the document nor the XPath expression, right?
Correct. > Can't you get the namespace-prefix mapping from your user? Nope. Or they are not going to be expecting to have to [since this works just fine in Java, which for this feature we are pretty much porting from]. > After all, he/she is the only one who knows the meaning of the XPath > expression. ??? The namespaces are embedded in the document. Personally I find it odd I have to tell xpath about the namespace of the document it is a $*&@(*& method of. > I'd just reject any expression with an undefined prefix. Which I'm okay with; whether the prefix is undefined can be determined from the document! > BTW, I'm still not sure I understand your problem. Could you provide some > more details? This is an action in a workflow action (business process modeling). It has an input message of an XML document and a parameter of an xpath; it invokes a subordinate action [think: foreach] for each node resulting from the expression. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
