Aaron, In the case: xmlns="http://someweb.com"; == you do have a namespace associated with the empty prefix.
Steven J. Hathaway > Thank you very much for your reply Steven. > > My xml has xmlns="http://someweb.com"; (i.e. no prefix which is what I've > always understood to be referred to as having default namespace). > > If you run a series of XML through the Xalan SimpleXPathAPI sample then, > if > you have no name space (no xmlns at all in the doc), you can use XPath > like > "/node1/node2/etc" and if you have a defined namespace, you can use XPath > like /myns:node1/myns:nod2e/myns:etc. But if you run a document with > "default namespace" through the SimpleXPathAPI sample, it returns no node > found. > > I've also found that when you interrogate a document like this in XMLQuire > it puts out "/dft:node1/dft:node2/dft:etc". > > I found a few post where folks had hit this same issue and were told to" > > "You'll also need to implement a PrefixResolver derivative and pass an > instance of that into the XPathEvaluator, so the XPath implementation can > map the namespace prefix to the proper namespace URI. You can look at the > existing PrefixResolver instances to see what's involved." -Dave Bertoni > > http://apache-xml-project.6118.n7.nabble.com/xpath-expression-with-namespace-td22110.html#a22111 > > > That post is rather old an maybe I'm heading in the wrong direction as > there > may be better ways to do this now. > > Thanks again for any help you can give me. > > Aaron > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-xml-project.6118.n7.nabble.com/mapping-a-prefix-to-a-namespace-URI-tp40498p40507.html > Sent from the Xalan - C - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
