This allows filtering of nodes by indexes (e.g. using last() or a literal
number) and uses the correct index range (1 to N in XPath). The function
position() is not yet supported as this requires access to the current node,
which isn't passed down the call stack just yet.
The previous setup would consume too much. For example the following HTML:
<a><!--foo--><b><!--bar--></b></a>
would result in the following T_COMMENT token:
"foo--><b><!--bar"
The new setup requires the marking of a start position. I'm not a huge fan of
this but there doesn't appear to be a way around this.
Namespaces aren't scoped per document but instead per element, thus this method
doesn't make that much sense. This also fixes the remaining, failing XPath test.
The method XPath::Evaluator#node_matches? now has a special case to handle
"type-test" nodes. This in turn fixes a bunch of failing tests such as those for
the XPath query "parent::node()".
Unlike what I thought before syntax such as "node()" is not a function call.
Instead this is a special node test that tests the *types* of nodes, not their
names.
The lexer doesn't lex things correctly due to "//" and "/" both being separate
rules. As a result the lexer emits two T_SLASH tokens for queries such as
".//foo".
This separates namespace handling into namespace names and namespace objects.
The namespace objects are retrieved from the element an attribute belongs to.
Once retrieved the namespace is cached, due to the overhead of retrieving
namespaces in large documents.
The old code used for generating Object#inspect values has been ripped out (for
the most part). The result is a non indented but far more compact #inspect
output. The code for this is also easier and doesn't break the signature of
Object#inspect.
Oga won't be handling URIs any time soon. The rationale is that they server zero
purpose when it comes to just parsing XML. Another goal of Oga is to make it
easy to modify and reserialize documents back to XML. If namespaces would also
store the URIs this would make this process more difficult.
Yorick Peterse