[libxml-devel] String parsing

[Charlie Savage]

Eric M. wrote:
> I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong or whatnot, but I
> cannot get any form of xpath searching to work on a parsed string.
> Specifically, here is what is happening:
> 
> -> XML generated, sent out to server
> <- Server receives XML, sends out response
> -- response received, xml = XML::Parser.string(response.body).parse
> -- xml.find('/error') executed, result is nil;
> 
> XML response, and value of xml, is formatted like so:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <error xmlns="http://some-url.com" serial-number="some-serial-number">
>   <error-message>Error message here.</error-message>
> </error>

Because the error is in an xml namespace.  See the rdocs for the XPath 
module.  Basically:

xml.find('/mynamespace:error', :mynamespace => 'http://some-url.com')

Charlie
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