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David N. Welton
David N. Welton

Reputation: 1865

Nokogiri stripping attribute namespaces during parsing

I have this:

<style:style style:name="MYBOLD" style:family="text" style:parent-style-name="Standard">
  <style:text-properties style:font-name="Arial" style:font-name-complex="Arial" fo:font-weight="bold" style:font-weight-asian="bold" style:font-weight-complex="bold"/>
</style:style>

Note how the attributes have a namespace.

When I parse it like so:

Nokogiri::XML.fragment(xmltext)

It seems to have lost the namespaces for both the tags and the attributes! Is there any way I can preserve those?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 421

Answers (1)

Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas

Reputation: 37507

Nokogiri is blind to namespaces except (1) those on the root node, and (2) any that you register yourself. Since a fragment by definition has no root node, you'll have to supply namespace information yourself.

I noticed that the constructor to DocumentFragment has an optional Context node, from which it can glean namespace information. Since you have indicated in your comments that you have a document in which you will insert the fragment, as long as the namespaces are properly registered in that document you can probably use it for the context information.

Upvotes: 3

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