What are some potential issues or pitfalls to be aware of when using Xpath in PHP for DOM navigation?

Issue: Namespace prefixes can cause problems when using XPath in PHP for DOM navigation. To avoid this issue, you can register the namespaces with the DOMXPath object before executing XPath queries. 

// Create a new DOMDocument
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('example.xml');

// Create a new DOMXPath object
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);

// Register the namespace prefixes
$xpath->registerNamespace('ns', 'http://www.example.com/ns');

// Execute an XPath query with the registered namespace prefix
$nodes = $xpath->query('//ns:element');

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