From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-10-26T14:34:42+09:00
Subject: libxml-ruby namespace problem


I'm trying to use libxml-ruby 0.5.2.0 on cygwin. The XML I want to parse
has a namespace declaration on the root node, but this namespace isn't
given a prefix.

My problem is that when I try to match elements using e.g.
XML::Document#find, it won't match any.

If I specified a prefix for the document's NS in the XML file, and used
element names qualified by that prefix in the xpath expression, it finds
what I'm looking for. Also, if I remove the NS declaration from the root
node, then it finds elements with unspecified names in the xpath expression.

Too bad I can't tweak the XML input I'd have to handle like I can with
test files.

So my question is, how can I have libxml-ruby to ignore the namespace on
the document and find elements using unqualified names; or how can I
specify what namespace it should assume for the unqualified names in the
xpath?

The docs mention a namespace parameter to the #find method, but I was
unable to figure out how I'm supposed to specify the NS there.

thx
mortee