It seemed like a good idea at the time ....

Cheers,

E.
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Eliot Kimber, Owner
Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com




On 4/22/16, 3:29 PM, "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>> On 22 Apr 2016, at 20:52, Joseph L. Casale jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>><xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm afraid this is the number 1 xpath gotcha. Your nlog element is in
>>>a namespace and you are searching for nlog elements in no namespace.
>>> 
>>> The framework in which you are executing the XPath expression should
>>>give you some means of binding a prefix to the namespace, for example
>>> 
>>> setNamespaceBinding("n",
>>>"http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd")
>>> 
>>> You can then use the path expression "/n:nlog/@throwExceptions"
>> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> Looks like I am out of luck, according to
>>https://sourceforge.net/p/wix/bugs/2384/
>> the WIX toolset neglects to implement this functionality.
>> 
>
>Well, there's always the ghastly workaround
>
>>> "/*[local-name() = 'nlog']/@throwExceptions"
>
>Over on xml-dev there are people actually defending the design of XML
>namespaces. Amazing.
>
>Michael Kay
>Saxonica