Hi Juergen I simply must add this to the FAQ, its one of those questions that keeps coming up.
The answer is that you were on the right track with the setNamespaceURIs. Though in XPath expressions you must use a prefix. Note that the prefix is irrelevant and syntax sugar - what matters is the local name of the element and the namespace URI that its associated with. So using a prefix of whatever you like, say "foo" would work, even if the source document was using no prefix (or the default namespace as its often called). The prefixes do not need to match, only the URIs. James FROM: Juergen FeyDATE: 01/17/2002 02:45:55SUBJECT: [dom4j-dev] Problem with default namespace (no prefix) and XPATH Hi, I am running into this big problem with the default namespace we`re using here. All documents are defined as: <Article xmlns="http://....."; ..> so, there is no prefix, which is legal since all elements without a prefix will be using this default namespace. But .. HashMap idg = new HashMap(); idg.put ("", "http://...";); xpathSelector.setNamespaceURIs(idg); does not work of cause. If i strip the "xmlns:..."-String from the XML file everything works, but that is not really a workable option. So my question is: How can i use the default namespace with XPATH to find the elements i am looking for? Any help/hint greatly welcomed. Juergen Fey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev
