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Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?

From: Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>
Cc: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:14:14 +0000

On 1/25/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I'm still trying to wrap my head around your use case. I don't feel I
> fully understand it yet, so I don't think I can judge whether or not
> it's valid.
>
> I do have one idea though. Could your case be handled by XPath? In fact
> would that work better for you? i.e. suppose you got all the namespaces
> in scope on an element using an XPath expression such as
>
> element.query("namespace::node()");
>
> This would give you a list of all the namespaces in scope on the
> element, including those inherited from the ancestor. Do you need more
> than that? If so what? Or perhaps you need less than that?

if that returns all the namespaces in scope, then its all I need. I
hadnt thought of using XPath for that, being fairly ignorant of it
apart from basic up/down navigation. I will do the relevant research
and see what my unit tests tell me

-steve

>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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