If you are not interested in the namespace qualification you could just look for elements with a local name of "div" using an Xpath expression like this:
//.[local-name()='div'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'content_left'] -----Original Message----- From: Ben Munat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:58 PM To: dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [dom4j-user] xpath annoyances I'm having trouble with xpath's returning valid results in dom4j. My co-worker was trying to select a div in an xhtml file based on a class attributes and was getting any results, even though he could get results with the same XPath in jedit (using saxon) and it worked fine. I told him about the namespace problem and added the code -- as Edwin has suggested in the past -- to add a map of namespaces, with just "" mapped to "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";. This works for selecting unqualified elements; i.e. without the [EMAIL PROTECTED]'foo'] predicate. (Well, we struggled for a while with it working on my machine but not on his and discovered that he had jaxen-1.1-beta-6 and I had beta-4... so beta-6 apparently introduced a bug!). However, I have been trying for hours to get "//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'content_left']" to work. I'll paste the code/html below. Really hoping someone's listening and can help here... Edwin, my savior, you out there? b code: SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); Document document = reader.read(new File("findings.html")); XPath xp = DocumentFactory.getInstance().createXPath("//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'content_left']"); Map ns = new HashMap(); ns.put("","http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";); xp.setNamespaceURIs(ns); List nodes = xp.selectNodes(document.getRootElement()); html: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> <title>Findings</title> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div class="content"> <div class="label">Decision</div> <div id="Decision" class="text">The Decision...</div> </div> <div class="content_right"> <div class="content_right_inner"> <div class="label">Status</div> <div id="Status" class="text">Pending</div> </div> </div> <div class="content_header"></div> <div class="content_left"> <div class="label">Primary</div> <div id="Primary" class="text">Foo Bar</div> <div class="line"> </div> <div class="label">Number</div> <div id="Number" class="text">9876543210</div> <div class="label">Run Date/Time</div> <div id="RunDate" class="text">02/20/2006 12:00:00</div> <div class="line"></div> </div> <div class="content_right"> <div class="content_right_inner"> <div class="label">Secondary</div> <div id="Secondary" class="text">Foo Baz</div> <div class="line"> </div> <div class="line"> </div> <div class="label">Submitted by</div> <div id="SubmittedBy" class="text">Foo Bar</div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
