XPath in Nokogiri returning empty array [] whereas I am expecting to have results

Question

I am trying to parse XML files using Nokogiri, Ruby and XPath. I usually don't encounter any problem but with the following I can't make any xpath request: ``` doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("myfile.xml")) doc.("//Meta").count # result ==> 0 doc.xpath("//Meta") # result ==> [] doc.xpath(.).count # result => 1 ``` Here is an simplified version of my XML File ``` ... ... ... fr La …

Accepted Answer

Include the namespace information when calling `xpath`:

```
doc.xpath("//x:Meta", "x" => "test:com.test.search")
```

XPath in Nokogiri returning empty array [] whereas I am expecting to have results

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