Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] namespacing fun(?)

Oh, ok.  I'll put something together on Monday.

Thanks for replying so fast

Dan


"Christian Stocker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> please provide the shortest possible example of your code and/or file a
bug.
>
> this should actually work as you suggested. I don't think it's a PHP
> problem..
>
> chregu
>
>
> On 1/30/04 5:48 PM, Daniel Pupius wrote:
>
> > Hey there,
> >
> > I'm using the DOM XML and XPATH queries.  My application has to accept
XML
> > formats based on an IMS standard,  both generated in our company and
> > externally by others.
> >
> > Now the problem, most people use the same naming convensions for
namespaces,
> > but a couple of people do not.  This causes the XPATH queries to fail.
> >
> > For example, consider the following XML documents:
> >
> >
> > <demo xmlns="http://somenamespace">
> >   <node>
> >     <child />
> >     <child />
> >   </node>
> > </demo>
> >
> > <ns:demo xmlns:ns="http://somenamespace">
> >   <ns:node>
> >     <ns:child />
> >     <ns:child />
> >   </ns:node>
> > </ns:demo>
> >
> > <fun:demo xmlns:fun="http://somenamespace">
> >   <fun:node>
> >     <fun:child />
> >     <fun:child />
> >   </fun:node>
> > </fun:demo>
> >
> >
> > They all represent the same structure, bound to the same namespace.  And
are
> > thus all esentially equal to:
> > <http://somenamespace:demo>
> >   .... etc ....
> > </http://somenamespace:demo>
> >
> >
> > When creating the XPATH queries, you'd register the namespace:
> >     xpath_register_ns($xpath,"ns", "http://somenamespace");
> >
> > And format your queries like so:
> >     /ns:demo/ns:node/ns:child
> >
> > I'd expect this to match all the above xml files, since the "ns" in the
> > xpath query refers to the namespace rather than the textual abrieviation
of
> > the namespace.  Am I correct in this assumption?  Of course, it doens't
seem
> > to work with PHPs parser.
> >
> > I was therefore wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to get round
this
> > problem...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Dan
> >
>
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