[xml] Xpath issues with libxml2

2015-01-30 Thread Alex Boese
Forgive me if this is a deprecated approach (as I am not fully aware), but I was utilizing "default" libxml2 bindings (not lxml) in Python to retrieve xml fragments via xpath functions. Normally this seems to work fine, but with namespace declarations this seems especially problematic as nothing

Re: [xml] xml Digest, Vol 128, Issue 2

2015-02-10 Thread Alex Boese
pace in the doc. Give us > a small example that you've tried that doesn't work, we'll fix it. > > Ross > >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 08:44:15AM -0500, Alex Boese wrote: >> Forgive me if this is a deprecated approach (as I am not fully aware), but I

Re: [xml] xml Digest, Vol 129, Issue 1

2015-02-12 Thread Alex Boese
gt; parts, >> even for tags that are defaulted in the document. So, you'll need to declare >> a namespace prefix that matches the default namespace in the doc. Give us >> a small example that you've tried that doesn't work, we'll fix it. >> >>

[xml] Xpath issues with libxml2

2015-02-12 Thread Alex Boese
ose the problem. >>> However, seeing 'namespaces' and 'never returns anything' makes me think >>> you're >>> having issues with the default namespace concept. While XML documents have a >>> default namespace, XPaths do not. On