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Re^2: How to parse xml with namespase vale in XMl:LibXML? (xmllint --shell setns / xpathtester)

by Anonymous Monk
on Jul 08, 2013 at 09:40 UTC ( [id://1043057]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: How to parse xml with namespase vale in XMl:LibXML? ( XPath error : Undefined namespace prefix )
in thread How to parse xml with namespase value in XMl:LibXML?

Using http://www.xpathtester.com/ to fixup the xml I get
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <book xmlns:book="http://generated.ns/book"> <book:chapter id="bk444444ch1" type="CHAPTER"> <book:locator xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:hre +f="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chapter/bk444444ch1?releas +eStatus=RELEASED" xlink:title="Photonic crystal light-emitting source +s" xlink:type="locator"></book:locator> <book:locator xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:hre +f="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chapter/bk444444ch1?releas +eStatus=RELEASED&amp;format=pdf" xlink:title="Photonic crystal light- +emitting sources" xlink:type="locator"></book:locator> <book:locator xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:hre +f="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chapter/bk444444ch1?releas +eStatus=RELEASED&amp;format=epub" xlink:title="Photonic crystal light +-emitting sources" xlink:type="locator"></book:locator> </book:chapter> </book>

And then setns/query using xmllint --shell

$ xmllint.exe --shell ravi06-03.xml / > / > whereis //@xlink:href XPath error : Undefined namespace prefix xmlXPathEval: evaluation failed //@xlink:href: no such node / > / > setns xlink=http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink / > / > whereis //@xlink:href /book/book:chapter/book:locator[1]/@xlink:href /book/book:chapter/book:locator[2]/@xlink:href /book/book:chapter/book:locator[3]/@xlink:href / > / > cat //@xlink:href ------- xlink:href="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chapter/bk444444c +h1?releaseStatus=RELEASED" ------- xlink:href="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chapter/bk444444c +h1?releaseStatus=RELEASED&amp;format=pdf" ------- xlink:href="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chapter/bk444444c +h1?releaseStatus=RELEASED&amp;format=epub" / > / > / > cat (//@xlink:href/..)[1] ------- <book:locator xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="/ +book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chapter/bk4 44444ch1?releaseStatus=RELEASED" xlink:title="Photonic crystal light-e +mitting sources" xlink:type="locator"/> / > / > / > bye $
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Re^3: How to parse xml with namespase vale in XMl:LibXML? (xmllint --shell setns / xpathtester)
by ravi06 (Novice) on Jul 08, 2013 at 12:10 UTC
    But when I am trying to access the nodes as below I don't get any value.
    print $chapter_node->findvalue('./book:locator/@xlink:href') . "\n";
    Could you please elaborate a bit or point out where I am committing mistake?
      Works for me:
      #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use XML::LibXML; my $xml = XML::LibXML->load_xml(IO => *DATA); my $root = $xml->documentElement; my $chapter_node = $root->findnodes('book:chapter')->[0]; print $chapter_node->findvalue('./book:locator/@*') . "\n"; __DATA__ <book xmlns:book='b'> <!-- Namespace definition missing in the origina +l data --> <book:chapter id="bk444444ch1" type="CHAPTER"> <book:locator xlink:href="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chap +ter/bk444444ch1?releaseStatus=RELEASED" xlink:title="Photonic crystal + light-emitting sources" xlink:type="locator" xmlns:xlink="http://www +.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> <book:locator xlink:href="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chap +ter/bk444444ch1?releaseStatus=RELEASED&amp;format=pdf" xlink:title="P +hotonic crystal light-emitting sources" xlink:type="locator" xmlns:xl +ink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> <book:locator xlink:href="/book/isbn/979-0-4444-1000-17/book-part/chap +ter/bk444444ch1?releaseStatus=RELEASED&amp;format=epub" xlink:title=" +Photonic crystal light-emitting sources" xlink:type="locator" xmlns:x +link="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> </book:chapter> <!-- Missing in the original data --> </book>

      Note the changes I made to your data. Maybe your $chapter_node contains something else?

      لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ
        Hi Choroba,

        Thanks a lot and sorry for being stupid. Actually, my objective was to get values of "xlink:href" and "xlink:title" for first occurrence of "book:locator" in Xpath context.

        Any hint or tweak on that?

      Could you please elaborate a bit or point out where I am committing mistake?

      Well, no, you don't show self-contained code . I guess that you didn't read my nodes and setup xpc with some setns, but I don't really have any way of knowing; also, I hate xml

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