RE: Is the xpath() xpointer scheme namespace-aware?

Hi David,

Can you give a literal example in code that illustrates the problem?
Sounds like a bug to me.

Are you using XMLCalabash?

Kind regards,
Geert

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: David Cramer [mailto:david@thingbag.net]
> Verzonden: dinsdag 6 augustus 2013 16:14
> Aan: Geert Josten
> CC: XProc Dev
> Onderwerp: Re: Is the xpath() xpointer scheme namespace-aware?
>
> On 08/06/2013 01:57 AM, Geert Josten wrote:
> > Sounds like it should be possible in principle. Are you observing
> > unexpected output or errors?
>
> Sorry, neglected to mention those details:
>
> If I refer to an element unprefixed, *[not(self::title)], it doesn't
> match the element (i.e. the title elements appear in the result doc).
>
> If I use a prefix, *[not(self::db:title)] where 'db' is bound to
> http://docbook.org/ns/docbook, I get the error:
>
> XD0023:Expression could not be evaluated
>
> Reading http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/#err.inline.D0023, it seems like both
> of these should work: "When the XProc processor evaluates an XPath
> expression using XPath 1.0, unless otherwise indicated by a particular
> step, it does so with the following initial context...in-scope
> namespaces...The namespace bindings in-scope on the element where the
> expression occurred."
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Geert
> >
> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >> Van: David Cramer [mailto:david@thingbag.net]
> >> Verzonden: maandag 5 augustus 2013 23:04
> >> Aan: XProc Dev
> >> Onderwerp: Is the xpath() xpointer scheme namespace-aware?
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >> I'm processing DocBook xml with Calabash and using xinclude with the
> >> xpath() scheme to pull in all the children of a section EXCEPT for
the
> >> title. The following works fine, but is inelegant:
> >>
> >> <xi:include
> >> href="test.xml"
> >> xpointer="xpath(//*[@xml:id = 'test']/*[not(local-name(.) =
'title')])">
> >>
> >> I was expecting to be able to do:
> >>
> >> //*[@xml:id = 'test']/*[not(self::title)]
> >>
> >> or (assuming I'd bound http://docbook.org/ns/docbook to 'db'):
> >>
> >> //*[@xml:id = 'test']/*[not(self::db:title)]
> >>
> >> Is the xpath scheme namespace-aware?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> David

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