[Phoenix] Re: Bug in source node retrieval

[Andreas Wuest]

Hi Thomas

On 20.9.2006 13:54 Uhr, Comiotto Thomas wrote:

> Hi Andi
> 
>> Hmm, well, I'm a bit wary about this. Because e.g. Atom entries are 
>> mostly like this (and falling back to namespace-unaware mode is no 
>> option, if I understand that mode correctly, because Atom entries can 
>> contain mixed namespaces, e.g. the can contain XHTML markup inside 
>> <atom:content> elements).
> 
> Should be no problem because, ehm.. ns unaware mode means ignoring 
> namespaces. The idea is that only local names of elements are taken into 
> account when assembling the xpath expression (*[local-name() = 
> 'content']/*[local-name() = 'p']/) - so mixing namespaces is no problem.

Heh... */me slaps head against keyboard*

> The only problem one can run into with this approach is in situations 
> where the xpath expression becomes ambiguous when ignoring ns 
> information, i.e. a document that has
> 
> foo:table/foo:tr/xhtml:td/text()
> 
> xhtml:table/xhtml:tr/foo:td/text()
> 
> Never came across this, but it can't be ruled out either of course;)

Yeah, never underestimate the things users can and will come up with... ;)

-- 
Kind regards,
Andi