Hi Monks,

I would like to parse an xml-file with an xmlns-declaration I don't know of and doesn't seem to exist. The XML is parsed fine without this xmlns-declaration. If I let it in, no description, height or width is returned.

Is there a way to ignore this xmlns-decleration? (So, the parsing works as without this declaration)

Perlscript (thanks to choroba):

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };

use XML::LibXML;

my $dom = 'XML::LibXML'->load_xml(location => 'imgfile.xml');
say 'XML Version is: ', $dom->version;
say 'Document encoding is: ', $dom->encoding;

for my $image (
    $dom->findnodes('/imgfile/images/views/view/nodes/node/properties'
+)
) {
    for my $property (qw( Description Height Width )) {
        say "$property: ", $image->findvalue("property[\@type='$proper
+ty']");
    }
}
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XML-File:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="yes"?>
<imgfile IMGFileVersion="1.2.0.2312" xmlns="http://foobar.com/version/
+2.0">
    <images>
        <views>
            <view type="contacts_view">
                <nodes>
                    <node>
                        <properties id="guid1">
                            <property type="Height">434</property>
                            <property type="Width">2346</property>
                            <property type="Description">Smile</proper
+ty>
                        </properties>
                        </node>
                    <node>
                        <properties id="guid2">
                            <property type="Height">1024</property>
                            <property type="Width">768</property>
                            <property type="Description">Background.jp
+eg</property>
                        </properties>
                        </node>
                    </nodes>
            </view>
        </views>
    </images>
</imgfile>
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Changing the second line from: <imgfile IMGFileVersion="1.2.0.2312" xmlns="http://foobar.com/version/2.0">to<imgfile IMGFileVersion="1.2.0.2312"> solves the issue.