I think you're using Firefox to view your XML ... FireFox doesn't seem to show namespace declarations.
The following default namespace declaration however seems to be defined on the root element: xmlns="http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2004-11-10" You could use the following to fix this: HashMap map = new HashMap(); map.put( "aws", "http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2004-11-10";); XPath xpath = DocumentHelper.createXPath( "//aws:SellerId"); xpath.setNamespaceURIs( map); List nodes = xpath.selectNodes( root); Regards, Edwin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&op=click _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user