require 'rexml/document' require File.expand_path('../../../../spec_helper', __FILE__) describe "REXML::Element#prefixes" do before :each do doc = REXML::Document.new("") @elem = doc.elements["//c"] end it "returns an array of the prefixes of the namespaces" do @elem.prefixes.should == ["y", "z"] end it "does not include the default namespace" do @elem.prefixes.include?("xmlns").should == false end it "returns an empty array if no namespace was defined" do doc = REXML::Document.new "" root = doc.elements["//root"] root.prefixes.should == [] end end