Thanks Edwin. This really helps. I will take care of the default
namespaces from here on.
The tbody ommission is even more funny. I am using firebug to extract
XPaths from the document. It turns out firebug is adding the Tbody
element to the xpath. Thanks for spotting it out for me.
Thanks
anand
On 6/20/07, Edwin Dankert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is your default namespace, you will have to map this
> namespace to a prefix and use the prefix in your xpath expressions
>
> HashMap map = new HashMap();
> map.put("html", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";);
>
> XPath xpath = doc.createXPath("/html:html/html:head/html:title");
> xpath.setNamespaceContext(new SimpleNamespaceContext(map));
>
> System.out.println(xpath.evaluate(document));
>
> There are no "tbody" elements in the document. Please try the following
> instead:
>
> xpath =
> doc.createXPath("/html:html/html:body/html:table/html:tr/html:td/html:table[2]/html:tr/html:td/html:table[2]//html:tr");
> xpath.setNamespaceContext(new SimpleNamespaceContext(map));
>
> System.out.println(xpath.evaluate(document));
>
> Regards,
> Edwin
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> http://www.edankert.com/
>
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