How do you do this if you don't know the prefixes? Say I get two XML files:
#1 <u:Body> . . . . </u:Body> #2: <a:Body> . . . </a:Body> u and a are mapped to same namespace. I want to select Body. How can I do so in a way that is not so dependent on what prefix the original author of the document used? Jim Jim Brain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Researching tomorrow's decisions today." (319) 369-2070 (work) SYSTEMS ARCHITECT, ITS, AEGON FINANCIAL PARTNERS -----Original Message----- From: James Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:55 PM To: David Hooker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] default namespace issue From: "David Hooker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Isn't there a dom4j API call to get the namespace URI's from the XML > file and bind them into your xpath expression? Kind of, though a document can redefine prefixes <-> URI mappings throughout the document, so you need to pick a node and get the namespaces available there. By default dom4j with inherit any namespace prefixes -> URIs that are available in the source node on which XPaths occur. e.g. if you parsed this document <foo:root xmlns:foo="http://www.foo.com/123"; xmlns:bar="http://somewhere.com/bar";> <bar:one> <bar:two>hello!</bar:two> </bar:one> </foo:root> Then the following XPath expression on the document (or document.getRootElement()) should work fine... foo:root/bar:one/bar:two James _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
