[dom4j-user] XPath & Namespace

[Ray Grieselhuber]

Hi,

I'm trying to run this XPath query on this data:

List list = document.selectNodes( "//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'aw1']" );

int listSize = list.size();

I'm getting 0 as the size for listSize even though I have xhtml (nested 
of course) like this:

<a shape="rect" id="aw1"
                          
href="/url?sa=l&amp;ai=Bp8ack1vzQ936Oo68qAKyzfztAveuvhHBhYPsAZ2GwgXwslIQARgBKAc4AEifOVDz99Hz_f____8ByAEBlQIUb0oK&amp;num=1&amp;q=http://www.comp1.com"; 

                          onmouseover="return ss('go to 
www.comp1.com','aw1')"
                          onmouseout="cs()">
                          <font size="+0">
                              New Computers &amp; Hardware
                          </font>

</a>

I have tested the XPath string in oxygen and it works fine. I was told 
on the Jaxen list that I need to map the html prefix to 
http;//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/namespace.

I'm not sure how to do that, especially when working with Jaxen from 
within Dom4j. Can someone give me a quick example?

I'm currently getting the following error:

Exception in thread "main" org.dom4j.XPathException: Exception occurred 
evaluting XPath: //html:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'aw1']. Exception: XPath expression uses 
unbound namespace prefix html
  at 
org.dom4j.xpath.DefaultXPath.handleJaxenException(DefaultXPath.java:374)
  at org.dom4j.xpath.DefaultXPath.selectNodes(DefaultXPath.java:134)
  at org.dom4j.tree.AbstractNode.selectNodes(AbstractNode.java:166)
  at util.Foo.bar(Foo.java:21)
  at util.Foo.main(Foo.java:49)

Thanks!

Ray



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