Until XQuery(N+1) and ML support seperate default element namespaces and default xpath namespaces like they do in XSLT 3.0 I encourage the last style, even if more work,, ie. don't use default element namespaces if you ever have to XPath over something not in that namespace (and who doesn't !) . Its more painful than the seeming convenience suggests.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Lee Lead Engineer MarkLogic Corporation d...@marklogic.com Phone: +1 812-482-5224 Cell: +1 812-630-7622 www.marklogic.com<http://www.marklogic.com/> From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Danny Sokolsky Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:34 PM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Declare default element namespace That does not actually search in the empty namespace. That undeclares the prefix "empty". If you want to search in no namespace after creating a default element namespace, you have to either use a function such as fn:QName to generate a QName in no namespace or do what David suggested using xmlns="" in an element context. Or just don't use the default element namespace (but that is kind of an issue of style). -Danny From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of William Merritt Sawyer Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:24 AM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Declare default element namespace Is there any way to declare a namespace that is equal to the empty namespace so you can then use it in a xpath? Errors on empty string declare namespace empty = ""; /empty:some-element From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com<mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com> [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of David Lee Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 11:21 AM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Declare default element namespace Take that back, its a pain but try this: Its not *exactly* what you want but sometimes works. *:name resolves to all namespaces including the empty one. xquery version "1.0-ml"; declare default element namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";; let $x := <body><mine xmlns="">No NS></mine><p>hello world</p></body> return $x//*:mine ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Lee Lead Engineer MarkLogic Corporation d...@marklogic.com<mailto:d...@marklogic.com> Phone: +1 812-482-5224 Cell: +1 812-630-7622 www.marklogic.com<http://www.marklogic.com/> From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com<mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com> [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of David Lee Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:17 PM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Declare default element namespace Not to my knowledge.. I opened a W3C XQuery feature request for this a while back ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Lee Lead Engineer MarkLogic Corporation d...@marklogic.com<mailto:d...@marklogic.com> Phone: +1 812-482-5224 Cell: +1 812-630-7622 www.marklogic.com<http://www.marklogic.com/> From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com<mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com> [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of William Merritt Sawyer Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:10 PM To: general@developer.marklogic.com<mailto:general@developer.marklogic.com> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Declare default element namespace If you set the default element namespace with "declare default element namespace 'some-url'; " is there a way still xpath against the empty namespace? Thanks, - Will
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