Parsing Fragments That Have Namespaces

[sorin-ionescu]

I am having trouble parsing a document fragment that contains elements with namespaces. When added to a node as children, the namespaces are removed even though the namespaces are defined in the root element of the document to which I wish to add the fragment.

var fragment []byte = foo.Fragment()
fmt.Println(fragment) // prints name spaced elements
node.Child(fragment)
fmt.Println(node) // the elements are added, but the namespaces are removed.

I have also tried to parse the fragment manually with no success in preserving the namespaces.

I have noticed that you are wrapping the fragment with a root element. Nevertheless, the fragment seems to be parsed in the context of a node or document root, which, in my case, has the namespaces defined.

Thank you.

[mdayaram]

Hey sorin, could you give an example of an xml fragment that you're trying to parse that exhibits this behavior?

[zhigangc]

I added a test case

52bf0ac

Wonder if that's what you wanted to do.

[sorin-ionescu]

I think it's libxml2 at fault here, at least the one that comes with Mac OS X Lion. The latest libxml2 seems to work properly.