Ah good. I don't use XML::Twig, so I don't have a deep knowledge of it.

If it consistently ignored namespaces when map_xmlns isn't used, it would be a great shortcut despite being non-standard since there is rarely need to deal with namespace conflicts. (The module never claimed them to be a real XPaths.) Unfortunately, it doesn't consistently ignore namespaces.

On the plus side, it works according to standard when map_xmlns is used. (Well, I'm not sure how namespaces interact with attributes, so I'm simply commenting on elements.) 

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Twig qw( );

my $xml = <<'__EOI__';
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<root xmlns:foo="uri:foo">
  <ele id="a" />
  <ele id="b" xmlns="uri:foo"/>
  <foo:ele id="c" />
</root>
__EOI__


{
   my $seen = '';

   my $t = XML::Twig->new(
      twig_handlers => {
         'ele' => sub { $seen .= $_->att('id') },
      },
   );
   $t->parsestring($xml);

   print("$seen\n");
   print($seen eq 'a'                   ? "Standard\n"   : "Not standa
+rd\n");
   print($seen eq 'a' || $seen eq 'abc' ? "Consistent\n" : "Not consis
+tent\n");
}

print("\n");

{
   my $seen_null = '';
   my $seen_foo  = '';

   my $t = XML::Twig->new(
      map_xmlns => {
         'uri:foo' => 'f',
      },
      twig_handlers => {
         'ele'     => sub { $seen_null .= $_->att('id') || $_->att('f:
+id') },
         'f:ele'   => sub { $seen_foo  .= $_->att('id') || $_->att('f:
+id') },
      },
   );
   $t->parsestring($xml);

   print("$seen_null:$seen_foo\n");
   print($seen_null eq 'a'                        ? "Standard\n"   : "
+Not standard\n");
   print($seen_null eq 'a' || $seen_null eq 'abc' ? "Consistent\n" : "
+Not consistent\n");
   print($seen_foo eq 'bc'                        ? "NS working\n" : "
+NS broken\n");
}

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ab
Not standard
Not consistent

a:bc
Standard
Consistent
NS working

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In reply to Re^3: XML::Twig Text replacement by ikegami
in thread XML::Twig Text replacement by Gizmo

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