The prefix you use for the namespace-URI does not matter when you define your mapping. So you could have mapped
'urn:loc.gov:books' -> 'books' and 'urn:w3-org-ns:HTML' -> 'p', Your XPath expression to get the p element would now look like this: /books:book/books:notes/p:p For some more information, please have a look at: http://www.edankert.com/defaultnamespaces.html Regards, Edwin -- http://www.edankert.com/
