Re: Strange XPath behaviour with attributes and namespaces

Hi Emmanuel,

this definitely looks like a bug to me. Since this is reproducible 
with xmllint, I suggest you report it to Daniel Veillard on 
[email protected].

-- Petr

On pá 28. listopadu 2008, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've encountered a strange XPath behavior when looking for
> attributes declared within a specific namespace with XML::LibXML
> and libxml2.When i execute an expression if the form //@ns:* I
> get all the attributes in the document, no matter their
> namespace.
>
> Here's a sample input file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
> <rdf:RDF
>   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
>   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>   xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
>   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>   id="RDF83"
>
>  <cc:Work rdf:about="" id="Work84">
>    <dc:format id="format85">image/svg+xml</dc:format>
>    <dc:type id="type87"
> rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
> </cc:Work>
> </rdf:RDF>
>
>
> When I try to count the attributes declared in the namespace rdf
> "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" with the following
> XPath expressions I get:
>
> xpath count (//@rdf:*): 6 attributes
> xpath count (//@*): 6 attributes
> xpath count (//@*[namespace-uri() =
> 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#']): 2 attributes
>
> Am I wrong of thinking that //@rdf:* will find all attributes
> declared in the namespace rdf or is this a bug?
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