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

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

On 4/24/07, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> 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...

Yeah. I remember discussions on this, but I didn't remember it getting
implemented. Cool!

The docs still need tender loving care from a dedicated volunteer, and
that shouldn't be you. Nobody can give the excuse that they don't know
Pyrex here either, so we should have masses of volunteers standing up
to contribute. :)

Regards,

Martijn