Thank you Evan, Mark and Edwin!
Edwin's solution worked straight up... hooray. I actually thought of that but was sure it wouldn't work because I
thought all my elements in my document would need to be prefixed as well. Now I see that the prefix is just preventing
the XPath processor from ignoring the namespace.
When I saw Mark's solution, I remembered that I actually did that at some point in my murky past. However, it doesn't
seem to work this time... I get an XPathException on the local-name() function. Looked it up and that is the correct
function name. Weird. But, anyway, using a prefix is working, so I'm good.
Evan, I'm intrigued by your ideas, but with Edwin's solution working, I'm throwing this back over the fence to my
co-worker. I'll tuck away your code though and take a look at some point.
Thanks again!
b
PS: this gotcha isn't in the cookbook on the dom4j site is it? Maybe it should
be added to that...
Edwin Dankert wrote:
You should specify a prefix for your namespace and use this prefix
in your XPath expression.
The following should work:
Document document = reader.read(new File("findings.html"));
XPath xp = DocumentFactory.getInstance().createXPath(
"//xhtml:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'content_left']");
Map ns = new HashMap();
ns.put( "xhtml","http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";);
xp.setNamespaceURIs( ns);
List nodes = xp.selectNodes( document.getRootElement());
Good luck,
Edwin
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