Dmitri,
Yes, that worked for me. But, I previously treated objects and documents
in the same way, but now documents XPaths require registering
namespaces. I had to change my old code for this but it works.
Do namespaces in any way apply to objects?
regards,
John
Previously I was using
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:33, Dmitri Plotnikov wrote:
> John,
>
> JXPath 1.2 handles namespaces somewhat differently from JXPath 1.1. It is
> following the XPath specification more closely. The specification describes
> the procedure of matching a name by comparing so-called expanded names. An
> expanded name is a combination of a local name and a namespace URI. In your
> particular case, the LDAP element in the document has the expanded name
> ("LDAP", "http://www.verticon.com/react2/schema";), while the "LDAP" node
> test expands to ("LDAP", null).
>
> Quote from the spec: "Two expanded-names are equal if they have the same
> local part, and either both have a null namespace URI or both have non-null
> namespace URIs that are equal."
>
> The notion of default namespace applies to elements of an XML document, but
> does not apply to XPaths. Quote: "if the QName does not have a prefix, then
> the namespace URI is null (this is the same way attribute names are
> expanded). It is an error if the QName has a prefix for which there is no
> namespace declaration in the expression context [i.e. JXPathContext]."
>
> To remedy the situation, do the following two things:
>
> 1. Register the namespace with the JXPathContext:
>
> context.registerNamespace("schema",
> "http://www.verticon.com/react2/schema";);
>
> 2. Use this prefix in your XPaths:
> context.getValue("//schema:LDAP")
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> - Dmitri
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John E. Conlon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:20 PM
> Subject: [jxpath] Namespace problem with 1.2
>
>
> > Have been using version 1.1 to manipulate XML documents using a default
> > namespace without any problems, but 1.2 doesn't work with my code.
> >
> > Here is a sample document:
> >
> > <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
> > <Configuration xmlns = "http://www.verticon.com/react2/schema";>
> > <URIObjectSource>
> > <LDAP>
> > <URIObjectDefinition implementation="flagpools"/>
> > </LDAP>
> > </URIObjectSource>
> > </Configuration>
> >
> > With JXPath 1.1 I could use the a XPath "//LDAP" to get to the LDAP node
> > of this document, but with 1.2 I cannot.
> >
> > For example:
> > JXPathContext context = JXPathContext.newContext(myDocument);
> > Object o = context.getValue("//LDAP");
> >
> > JXPath 1.1 will return a value but 1.2 returns a null.
> >
> > Any ideas how I can get 1.2 working?
> >
> > John Conlon
> >
> >
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