in reply to Namespaced XML::LibXML XPath query

This is probably what you want:

use XML::LibXML;
use XML::LibXML::XPathContext;

{
    my $xml = <<'XML';
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<sdnList xmlns="http://tempuri.org/sdnList.xsd">
  <sdnEntry>
    <lastName>Hello world!</lastName>
  </sdnEntry>
</sdnList>
XML
    my $parser = XML::LibXML->new;
    my $doc    = $parser->parse_string($xml);
    my $xc     = XML::LibXML::XPathContext->new($doc);
    $xc->registerNs('sdnList', 'http://tempuri.org/sdnList.xsd');
    my $result = $xc->findvalue('//sdnList:lastName');
    is( $result, "Hello world!", "Namespace" );
}

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Re^2: Namespaced XML::LibXML XPath query
by chovy (Initiate) on Sep 17, 2008 at 22:43 UTC
    So what you're saying is my xpath needs to be written like this: 
    
$doc->findnodes('//myns:root/myns:stuff/myns:items/myns:book');

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    Given the following: 
    
<root xmlns="http://goobar/xml" xmlns:myns="http://goobar/xml">
  <stuff>
    <items>
       <book>XML Namespaces</book>
    </items>
  </stuff>
</root>

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    That is really an ugly xpath expression.
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[d/l]
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      blame the XML guys ;) default namespaces are just plain stupid.
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