Eternal fame and gratitude will be yours :)
Thank you,
Nick
"Dmitri Plotnikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 18/03/2004 06:11:23:
> I'll re-introduce the NamespaceManager in a couple of days. I needed to
> collect more information as I did not quite understand the requirement. I
do
> now. Thank you very much for your help.
>
> - Dmitri
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:16 AM
> Subject: [JXPath] Namespace prefixes
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having the same problem as Sudhir a while ago.
> >
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05586.html
> >
> > He posted a good example that I'll repeat here:
> >
> > I have a fairly simple xml document:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <bk:book xmlns:bk='urn:loc.gov:books'
> > xmlns:isbn='urn:ISBN:0-395-36341-6'>
> > <bk:title>Cheaper by the Dozen</bk:title>
> > <isbn:number>1568491379</isbn:number>
> > </bk:book>
> >
> > To access say the isbn number I would use the following xpath in my
> > code.
> > /bk:book/isbn:number
> >
> > Note that I need to specify the prefixes in my xpath or it won't
work.
> >
> > Now if I had instead the following document which is identical for
all
> > practical purposes with the earlier xml except that the prefixes are
> > different, it is my opinion that my code still ought to work.
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <ck:book xmlns:ck='urn:loc.gov:books'
> > xmlns:idn='urn:ISBN:0-395-36341-6'>
> > <ck:title>Cheaper by the Dozen</ck:title>
> > <idn:number>1568491379</idn:number>
> > </ck:book>
> >
> > But it doesn't. And that is because the prefixes I am specifying in
my
> > xpaths are not the same as what is used in the document.
> >
> > Dmitri implemented a NamespaceManager which would be a good solution to
> the
> > problem, but his patch got reversed.
> >
> > The problem remains however.
> >
> > Another less intrusive solution would be a setNamespace(String prefix,
> > String URI) function on a JXPathContext object.
> > This way all functionality that's present in Xalan is present in
JXPath.
> > As for XPaths on Java-objects, you could ignore all namespaces or
disallow
> > namespace qualifiers. I don't know what happens today if you specify a
> > namespace, but the behaviour could stay thesame.
> >
> > I'd very much like this namespace-prefix mapping feature to be
> > reconsidered, as currently JXPath isn't really usable for removing
silly
> > DOM-navigation-code when the Document uses namespaces.
> >
> > Nick Hofstede
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