Hello, I recently had to switch from JXPath 1.1 to 1.2 in order to benefit from some bug fixes. I am using JDOM 1.0. It appears that JXPath's behavior regarding namespaces in JDOM trees changed and became less convenient and flexible.
I have documents like this: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <table> <tr> <td>page</td> <td>type</td> <td>comment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/Home"/></td> <td>conf</td> <td>Home Page</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/ToolBar"/></td> <td>conf</td> <td>Tool Bar</td> </tr> </table> </html> The namespace of the root element is variable and might be the XHTML namespace, another namespace, or no namespace at all. The table structure is always the same, and cell values vary. And I have some code that executes the following query: SAXBuilder sax = new SAXBuilder(); Document doc = sax.build(new StringReader(...); Element rootElement = doc.getRootElement(); JXPathContext ctx = JXPathUtil.newContext(rootElement); String value = ctx.getValue("/table/tr[2]/td[2]"); This worked fine with JXPath 1.1, but it doesn't work anymore with 1.2. The new JXPath version throws an exception: org.apache.commons.jxpath.JXPathException: No value for xpath: /table/tr[2]/td[2] at org.apache.commons.jxpath.ri.JXPathContextReferenceImpl.getValue(JXPathContextReferenceImpl.java:344) at org.apache.commons.jxpath.ri.JXPathContextReferenceImpl.getValue(JXPathContextReferenceImpl.java:280) Why would this not work, considering that all the DOM nodes live in the same namespace - the namespace of the context bean (root element)? It appears that I can register the XHTML namespace, but then I have to use a prefix for every element name in my query - and it won't work if the namespace is not set or is different (that's possible in my app). Is there a solution to this problem, i.e. is there a way to make JXPath interpret the root element's namespace as the default namespace requiring no prefix in XPath queries? Thanks in advance, -Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
