Re: External references in xml headers

Aristotle Pagaltzis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Dave Howorth <[email protected]> [2008-05-20 16:30]:
> Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> > The API is virtually identical.
> 
> Sadly not in the presence of namespaces :(  But I'd still
> recommend XML::LibXML.
> 
>  my @entries = $xc->findnodes('/uniprot/entry'); # XML::XPath
> becomes
>  my @entries = $xc->findnodes('/u:uniprot/u:entry'); # XML::LibXML

Yes, particularly because the XML::XPath way of doing this is in
violation of the XPath spec. XPath has no concept of a default
namespace and it specifies that elements written without a prefix
(which must be declared to be bound to a namespace of course)
match only elements in the null namespace. In this respect
XML::XPath is in fact broken.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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