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I'm developing epub reader program.

To get contents of the epub file, I wanted to parse container.xml.

Here it is.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<container version="1.0" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container">
    <rootfiles>
    <rootfile full-path="OPS/content.opf"
  media-type="application/oebps-package+xml"/>
</rootfiles>
</container>

I wanted to get element, so I used following code.

CXMLDocument* manifestFile = [[[CXMLDocument alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:manifestFilePath] options:0 error:nil] autorelease];

NSArray* nodes = [manifestFile nodesForXPath:@"//rootfiles" error:nil];
NSLog(@"Nodes count is %d\n", [nodes count]);

And I get the following result.

Nodes count is 0

Why do I got this result?

Please help me.

Thanks.

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  • I don't know what is `CXMLDocument` but may be you should call in such manner `NSArray* nodes = [manifestFile nodesForXPath:@"rootfiles" error:nil];`? – Nekto Sep 03 '11 at 20:16
  • CXMLDocument is TouchXML library for parsing xml files. You can find this in https://github.com/TouchCode/TouchXML. – cyberworld Sep 03 '11 at 20:39

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The problem is that your XML has a namespace. You need to explicitly define the namespaces to use when querying with XPath.

NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                      @"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container",
                      @"oasis", 
                      nil];

NSArray* nodes = [manifestFile nodesForXPath:@"//oasis:rootfiles" namespaceMappings:dict error:nil];

NSLog(@"Nodes count is %d\n", [nodes count]); // --> Nodes count is 1
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