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nabeel has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I've run into a bit of a problem in trying to use XML::LibXML. Here is an xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/sp +ec/opensearch/1.1/"> <os:totalResults>233</os:totalResults> <os:startIndex>1</os:startIndex> <os:itemsPerPage>233</os:itemsPerPage> <os:Query role="request" searchTerms="test" startPage=""/> <entry> <id>34</id> <channel>1</channel> <title>Decision making: Marmite</title> + <description>A meeting of the 'business group', which is the committ +ee set up to steer the development of the new Squeezy Marmite bottle. + They discuss the qualities of the new bottle and agree to test i t with consumers.</description> <author></author> <size>36145156</size> <date>2007-09-07</date> <uri>assets/asset10000/aaiiaaaaaaafnknn.mpg</uri> <keylearningstage></keylearningstage> <keywords></keywords> <source>C4L Secondary Service</source> </entry> </feed>
and here is some code to parse that xml
use XML::LibXML; use lib '/usr/mi/lib'; use Encode; my $content; { $/ = undef; open ( FILE, "<$ARGV[0]" ); $content = <FILE>; close FILE; } $content = decode('utf8',$content, Encode::FB_CROAK); my $base = '/feed/entry'; my $parser = XML::LibXML->new(); my $xp = $parser->parse_string( $content); @nodeset = $xp->findnodes($base);
And @nodeset is empty. I've tried running this on debian sarge and Ubuntu 7.10. What is interesting is if I remove the 'xmlns=xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"' from the 'feed' element, everything seems to work fine. So, not sure if I am missing something. Need your help! Thanks Nabeel