I'm resending this as it seemed to vanish from the jaxen list... Hi Michael
This would be better addressed to the jaxen mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trick is to provide Jaxen with a NamespaceContext that maps the prefixes you use in your XPath expression to the URIs you want to use. An alternative is to use the verbose mechanism.... /*[local-name()='foo']/*[local-name()='Description'] There's a few mails on the archive about this kinda thing. It should be added to the FAQ... Also make sure when you create your own NamespaceContext that you don't change the default namespace prefx "" to a URI or you might find the standard XPath functions suddenly disappear (which again should be added to the FAQ...) James ----- Original Message ----- From: Zufferey, Michael To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:55 PM Subject: JAXEN XPATH with Namespaces Dear Mr. Strachan, I work as MPEG-7 specialist for an Austrian Computer Science Institute. Recently, I work also with DOM/JDOM/XML/XPATH in order to handle MPEG-7 documents (XML-Schema based documents) for retrieving needed information. Unfortunately, XPATH doesn't work with XML document when namespace are defined. Only Xalan (Apache org) seems to retrieve some information, but only when I specify the prefix, e.g.: "/mpeg7:mpeg7/mpeg7:Description//mpeg7:FreeTextAnnotation"). In order to use JDOM, I have installed the JAXEN XPATH search engine. Unfortunately, after one day of tests and efforts, nothing seems to work. I retrieve no results. And I have tried all (relative/absolute XPATH expressions, create and assign namespace to the document, elements, etc, using NamespaceContext (? How to use it correctly? No examples are provided)., etc.). Can you give me some advices or some simple examples, which could help me to solve my problem? Thank you for your attention and help. Sincerely yours, Michael Z. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Michael Zufferey Institute of Information Systems & Information Management JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH Steyrergasse 17, A-8010 Graz, AUSTRIA phone: +43-316-876-1245 fax: +43-316-876-1191 mobile: +43-650-600-99-16 web: http://iis.joanneum.at e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.comm ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ Jaxen-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest
