Re: XML::LibXML XPath fails to find xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"

Robin Berjon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 30, 2008, at 07:51 , Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
> I think that this particular 'bug' is not so important since no one is
> supposed to overload that namespace. So I could safely and  
> transparently
> add it to the XPath context without any problems.

It's not even that no one is supposed to overload it, in conforming  
implementations no one *can* overload it. Not only are all names that  
begin with any case variation on 'xml' reserved, but the http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace 
  namespace can only be bound to 'xml' and vice-versa.

Since it is always defined (as is the xmlns namespace) I would  
recommend that you just always make them appear in your application.

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