[lxml-dev] Bug in XPath evaluation - not a bug :)

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Martijn,

just a quick note here.

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> full qualified names would not be XPath compatible. Occasionally we've 
> had some discussions about offering an API to do XPath queries using 
> Clarke notation.

  >>> from lxml import etree
  >>> root = etree.Element("{testns}root")
  >>> etree.SubElement(root, "{testns}test")
  <Element {testns}test at b7da3464>

  >>> find = ETXPath("{testns}test")
  >>> find(root)
  [<Element {testns}test at b7da3464>]

I guess that's actually still missing from the docs - it's been in there for a
while...

Stefan