From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | James Pye <lists(at)jwp(dot)name>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: xpath processing brain dead |
Date: | 2009-03-02 12:48:24 |
Message-ID: | 49ABD598.9030208@dunslane.net |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> can you point me at any call in libxml2 which will evaluate an xpath
>> expression in the context of a nodeset instead of a document? Quite
>> apart from anything else, xpath requires there to be a (single)
>> context node (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#context ). For a doc,
>> we set that node to the document node, but what would it be for a
>> node-set or a fragment? If we can't get over that hurdle we're
>> screwed in pursuing your line of thought.
>
> Which may hint at the fact that running xpath on content fragments is
> ill-defined to begin with?!?
>
Right. But that's no excuse for what we have been doing, which was
demonstrably providing false results on good input.
cheers
andrew
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