# HG changeset patch
# User paulb
# Date 1117225890 0
# Node ID a4ead372eaa2bd11867788950b6002f0a8209ebf
# Parent  faa7233673fc45868ba8248ef10e733778330e31
[project @ 2005-05-27 20:31:30 by paulb]
Added comments about XPath variable and namespace support.

diff -r faa7233673fc -r a4ead372eaa2 libxml2dom/macrolib/macrolib.py
--- a/libxml2dom/macrolib/macrolib.py	Fri Jun 20 21:41:50 2008 +0200
+++ b/libxml2dom/macrolib/macrolib.py	Fri May 27 20:31:30 2005 +0000
@@ -310,8 +310,13 @@
     context = libxml2mod.xmlXPathNewContext(Node_ownerDocument(node))
     libxml2mod.xmlXPathSetContextNode(context, node)
     # NOTE: Discover namespaces from the node.
+    # NOTE: Work out how to specify paths without having to use prefixes on
+    # NOTE: names all the time.
     for prefix, ns in (namespaces or {}).items():
         libxml2mod.xmlXPathRegisterNs(context, prefix, ns)
+    # NOTE: No such functions are exposed in current versions of libxml2.
+    #for (prefix, ns), value in (variables or {}).items():
+    #    libxml2mod.xmlXPathRegisterVariableNS(context, prefix, ns, value)
     result = libxml2mod.xmlXPathEval(expr, context)
     libxml2mod.xmlXPathFreeContext(context)
     return result