lxml

enable exslt functions in plain xpath

Bug #515553 reported by Dirk Rothe
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lxml
Fix Released
Wishlist
scoder
lxml 2.3

Bug Description

It would be nice to have exslt function support in plain xpath.

> In [9]: print tree.xpath("/a[@b=str:split('12 34')]", namespaces={'str':
> "http://exslt.org/strings"})
> [...]
> XPathEvalError: Unregistered function

--dirk

Revision history for this message
scoder (scoder) wrote :

This has been implemented in trunk rev. 71556

https://codespeak.net/viewvc/?view=rev&revision=71556

Note, however, that the "split" and "tokenize" string functions are not currently available due to a bug in libxslt. See

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611394

Changed in lxml:
assignee: nobody → Stefan Behnel (scoder)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → 2.3
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
scoder (scoder) wrote :

Fixed in lxml 2.3alpha1.

Changed in lxml:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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