Aaron,
Without additional C++ programming, and you have an XML document
that associates with xmlns="http://someweb.com"; your stylesheet
can assign a prefix (my) to your namespace by using
xmlns:my="http://someweb.com"; in your stylesheet or transform
element.
<xsl:transform
xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
xmlns:my='http://someweb.com'
version='1.0'>
and your document can look like:
<mydoc xmlns="http://someweb.com";>
... document content
</modoc>
And the XSLT transformations now know how to use the my: prefix
for your nodes. If the <xsl:transform> element also has
xmlns="http://someweb.com"; then the common XPath functions may
break.
I don't remember what the linkage is to register namespace_names
to the namespace property at this time for XalanTransformer and
XPath runtime configuration structures.
Sincerely,
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
>
>
>
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