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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32360 ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-10-31 08:38 ------- Let me explain how XPath handles the default namespace, since this apopears to be at the source of all this confusion. Consider this document: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <test xmlns="http://test";> <child-element /> </test> Now suppose you want to use the XPath expression //child-element As noted this fails to find anything because it is searching for elements named "child-element" in no namespace and this element is in a namespace. Instead we must use a prefix in the XPath expression even though one is not used in the original document. For example: //foo:child-element This prefix foo must be mapped to the namespace URI http://test in the usual way any such prefix is mapped; i.e. a namespace context must be supplied. The prefix in the XPath expression is irrelevant except for its mapping to the URI. Only the namespace URI matters. This is how XPath works in XSLT. It is how it works in Jaxen, XOM, and every other XPath implementation I have ever encountered. It is this way by design, and there are good reasons for designing iot this way. Xpath expressions do not always appear in XML documents. They do not usually appear in the same document they are querying. And the fact that unprefixed attributes are never in any namespace makes it really hard to use unprefixed but qualified names in XPath expressions. -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
