From c1a8b09fc37e306f1b74fc87af74a21183c40f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tompng <tomoyapenguin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 21:41:32 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Remove XPath namespace axis handling part which is not
 working at all

Namespace axis should return a nodeset of Namespace Node, but Namespace Node class has not even been defined yet.
---
 lib/rexml/xpath_parser.rb | 27 +++------------------------
 test/xpath/test_base.rb   |  8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/rexml/xpath_parser.rb b/lib/rexml/xpath_parser.rb
index 02cd5056..c48eac76 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/xpath_parser.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/xpath_parser.rb
@@ -223,30 +223,9 @@ def expr( path_stack, nodeset, context=nil )
             nodesets
           end
         when :namespace
-          pre_defined_namespaces = {
-            "xml" => "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace",
-          }
-          nodeset = step(path_stack, any_type: :namespace) do
-            nodesets = []
-            nodeset.each do |node|
-              raw_node = node.raw_node
-              case raw_node.node_type
-              when :element
-                if @namespaces
-                  nodesets << pre_defined_namespaces.merge(@namespaces)
-                else
-                  nodesets << pre_defined_namespaces.merge(raw_node.namespaces)
-                end
-              when :attribute
-                if @namespaces
-                  nodesets << pre_defined_namespaces.merge(@namespaces)
-                else
-                  nodesets << pre_defined_namespaces.merge(raw_node.element.namespaces)
-                end
-              end
-            end
-            nodesets
-          end
+          warn 'Namespace axis is not supported in REXML::XPathParser', uplevel: 1
+          # TODO: We need to create NamespaceNode class to support this feature
+          nodeset = step(path_stack) { [] }
         when :parent
           nodeset = step(path_stack) do
             nodesets = []
diff --git a/test/xpath/test_base.rb b/test/xpath/test_base.rb
index c7049d67..fce80cda 100644
--- a/test/xpath/test_base.rb
+++ b/test/xpath/test_base.rb
@@ -248,6 +248,14 @@ def test_axe_parent
       assert_equal 19, q.attributes["id"].to_i
     end
 
+    def test_axe_namespace_no_error
+      $VERBOSE, verbose = nil, $VERBOSE
+      # Although namespace axis is not implemented yet, it should not raise NoMethodError
+      XPath.match(@@doc, "a/d/c/namespace::*")
+    ensure
+      $VERBOSE = verbose
+    end
+
     def test_abbreviated_attribute
       assert_equal 'a', XPath::first( @@doc, "a[@id='1']" ).name
       c = XPath::first( @@doc, "a/b/c[@id='4']" )