I am looking for some help retrieving xpath expressions using the getUniquePath() method. I am trying to retrieve the absolute xpath expression from a another xpath expression that has a predicate condition. However, I need to have the xpath in a human readable form without the name() function in the returned xpath, as this is be used for reporting purposes. e.g. my xml looks like <a xmlns="http://namespace"; xmlns:ns="http:namespace" >; <b> <c>1234</c> <c>something else</c> </b> </a> Note I have the same namespace declared as the prefixed and default namespace. The xpath expression will look something like this String xpath = /ns:a/ns:b:/ns:c[.=1234] Node node = document.getSingleNode ( xpath ); String uniquePath = node.getUniquePath (); when I use the above code I get an xpath expression that looks like /*[name()=a]/*[name()=b]/*[name()=c][1]. Unfortunately I cannot control what the xml data specially to include prefixes and also I am unable to modify the initial xpath. However, if I modify the data to look like <ns:a xmlns="http://namespace"; xmlns:ns="http:namespace" >; <ns:b> <ns:c>1234</ns:c> <ns:c>something else</ns:c> </ns:b> </ns:a> the returned expression looks great - /ns:a/ns:b/ns:c[1] - which is just what I am looking for. I could parse and pattern match the xpath containing the name function to make it look like the later, however that is going to be last resort. Is there anything I can do with the prefix mapping or contexts or xpath reporting to let dom4j handle the xpath reporting. thanks in advance Ismail ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
