From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2010-10-20T08:08:00+09:00
Subject: Re: nokogiri xml namespaces

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:14:07AM +0900, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> So when using nokogiri xml_element.xpath(path), you can pass a second
> argument hash of alias to namespace URI, to use namespaces.
>=20
> This works fine.  But it's inconvenient to be passing the hash on every
> call, when it's pretty much always the same hash, for several calls.
>=20
> It seemed to me there ought to be a way to set the default namespace
> alias mapping on the xml element itself, so it'll just stick for calls
> on that element, and won't need to be explicitly passed in on every
> xpath call.
>=20
> nokogiri has generally such a convenient api that I figured this must be
> there... but I haven't been able to find it.
>=20
> Anyone know if it is?

There is no API for doing this.  However, I am open to suggestions.
Could you write out in pseudo code (or ruby) what you're looking for?

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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