Doh!  Of course, thanks guys.  This is one
of those things that I seem to forget and have
to have to re-debug about once a year.

On Jun 30, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Aaron Redalen wrote:

> In the first case, the foo element isn't in the "mynamespace" namespace. 
> You've bound the "m" prefix to that namespace, but foo is in the empty 
> namespace.
>  
> In the second case, "mynamespace" is the default element namespace, so foo is 
> in the "mynamespace" namespace.
>  
> To make the first case work, you'd need to do:
>  
> xdmp:document-insert ("/foo.xml",
>          <m:foo xmlns:m="mynamespace"><bar>blah</bar></m:foo>)
>  
>  
> Aaron
> 
>  
> From: [email protected] 
> [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Hitchens 
> [[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:16 PM
> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Identical namespace prefixes don't match?
> 
> 
>    If I do this on ML 4.1-6:
> 
> xdmp:document-insert ("/foo.xml",
>          <foo xmlns:m="mynamespace"><bar>blah</bar></foo>)
> 
>    Then fn:doc ("/foo.xml") shows this:
> 
> <foo xmlns:m="mynamespace"><bar>blah</bar></foo>
> 
>    But if I run this XQuery, I get an empty sequence:
> 
> declare namespace m = "mynamespace";
> fn:doc ("/foo.xml")/m:foo
> 
>    Wildcarding the namespace returns the element:
> 
> declare namespace m = "mynamespace";
> fn:doc ("/foo.xml")/*:foo
> => <foo xmlns:m="mynamespace"><bar>blah</bar></foo>
> 
>    If I insert the doc without using a prefix in the
> document's xmlns declaration, then it works as expected:
> 
> xdmp:document-insert ("/foo.xml",
>          <foo xmlns="mynamespace"><bar>blah</bar></foo>)
> 
> declare namespace m = "mynamespace";
> fn:doc("/foo.xml")/m:foo
> => <foo xmlns="mynamespace"><bar>blah</bar></foo>
> 
>    Why doesn't the first case match?  Am I missing
> something?
> 
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