> ??? 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.
How so? Why do you say it's a "method", and why do you say "of"? Usually, xpath expressions are *not* part of the document they operate on, but part of the code that performs the operation. Consequentially, the namespace prefixes in the xpath expression do *not* occur in the document (other than by chance), but are defined by whoever writes the xpath expression. That is typically somebody different from the one writing the document - if you would always write them together, you wouldn't need xpath in the first place, but could produce the selection result right away. Regards. Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
