[Haskell-cafe] HXT Namespaces and XPath

[Mads Lindstrøm]

Hi all,

In HXT, namespace prefixes bound by an XML document are valid in the
context of an XPath. How do avoid that?

An example program will clarify:

simpleXml :: String
simpleXml = "<soap:Body xmlns:soap=\"http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope\"/>"

nsEnv :: [(String, String)]
nsEnv = [ ("s"    , "http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope") ]

evalXPath :: String -> String -> [XmlTree]
evalXPath xpath xml =
  runLA ( xread
          >>> propagateNamespaces
          >>> getXPathTreesWithNsEnv nsEnv xpath
        ) xml

Here:

evalXPath "//s:Body" simpleXml     ==
evalXPath "//soap:Body" simpleXml

Even though I only mentions the prefix "s" (and not "soap") in the
function nsEnv.

I do not want the XPath to see prefixes declared in the xml-document, as
it means that two semantically similar XML documents can get different
results when applied to the same XPath.

Also, is there any way to get 'getXPathTreesWithNsEnv' to recognize
XPath namespace declarations? I am thinking about declarations like:

declare namespace foobar='http://foobar.org/foobar'


Greetings,

Mads Lindstrøm

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