Hi, I encountered an error trying to convert an org.w3c.dom.Document to an org.dom4j.Document. Consider the following XML document:
<xmltest xmlns="http://www.aaa.com"; xmlns:nsa="http://www.aaa.com"; xmlns:nsb="http://www.bbb.com";> <elema>aaaaa</elema> <nsa:elemA>AAAAA</nsa:elemA> <nsb:elemb>bbbbb</nsb:elemb> </xmltest> It has a default namespace ("http://www.aaa.com";). The prefix "nsa" is associated with this namespace too. I need to get such a document as an org.w3c.dom.Document. So I parsed the file containing the above document into an org.w3c.dom.Document using namespace awareness. Than, I converted it into an org.dom4j.Document and tried to access the elements through XPath expressions. But only the <nsb:elemb> element could be accessed. Parsing the document with namespace awareness off and converting it to dom4j created elements such as <nsb:nsb:elemb>, i.e. "nsb" as the prefix and "nsb:elemb" as the local name. Does anybody have an idea how to solve this problem? Igor Take a look at the java code and it's output comparing the same document parsed with W3C DOM Parser and with the SAXReader: import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.dom4j.Document; import org.dom4j.Element; import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader; import org.dom4j.io.DOMReader; public class XpathTest { public static void main(String[] args) { Element elem; File file = new File("C:\\xmltest\\xmltest.xml"); try { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); dbf.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); org.w3c.dom.Document domdoc = db.parse(file); SAXReader saxreader = new SAXReader(); Document saxdoc = saxreader.read(file); DOMReader domreader = new DOMReader(); Document dom4jdomdoc = domreader.read(domdoc); String[] xpath = {"//nsa:elema", "//nsa:elemA", "//nsb:elemb", "//*[name()='elema']"}; for (int i = 0; i < xpath.length; i++) { System.out.println(); System.out.println("Trying " + xpath[i]); elem = (Element) dom4jdomdoc.selectSingleNode(xpath[i]); System.out.println("dom ===> " + elem); System.out.println(" XPath = " + ((elem != null) ? elem.getPath() : "no xpath")); elem = (Element) saxdoc.selectSingleNode(xpath[i]); System.out.println("sax ===> " + elem); System.out.println(" XPath = " + ((elem != null) ? elem.getPath() : "no xpath")); } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } Here's the output: Trying //nsa:elema dom ===> null XPath = no xpath sax ===> org.dom4j.tree.DefaultElement@13d93f4 [Element: <elema uri: http://www.aaa.com attributes: []/>] XPath = /*[name()='xmltest']/*[name()='elema'] Trying //nsa:elemA dom ===> null XPath = no xpath sax ===> org.dom4j.tree.DefaultElement@1749757 [Element: <nsa:elemA uri: http://www.aaa.com attributes: []/>] XPath = /*[name()='xmltest']/nsa:elemA Trying //nsb:elemb dom ===> org.dom4j.tree.DefaultElement@eb017e [Element: <nsb:elemb uri: http://www.bbb.com attributes: []/>] XPath = /*[name()='xmltest']/nsb:elemb sax ===> org.dom4j.tree.DefaultElement@15b9e68 [Element: <nsb:elemb uri: http://www.bbb.com attributes: []/>] XPath = /*[name()='xmltest']/nsb:elemb Trying //*[name()='elema'] dom ===> org.dom4j.tree.DefaultElement@c53dce [Element: <elema uri: http://www.aaa.com attributes: []/>] XPath = /*[name()='xmltest']/*[name()='elema'] sax ===> org.dom4j.tree.DefaultElement@13d93f4 [Element: <elema uri: http://www.aaa.com attributes: []/>] XPath = /*[name()='xmltest']/*[name()='elema'] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
