Re: Avoiding namespace in XPath expressions

[David Bertoni]

Serge Emantayev wrote:

Hi

My XML documents have a schema and a default namespace like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<emp_list
          xmlns:myns="http://www.test.com";
          xmlns="http://www.test.com";
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.test.com emp_list.xsd">

    <employee xsi:type="emp_list.employee">
        <id>10</id>
...

To compose an XPath expression I need to prefix each tag with 'myns':

/myns:emp_list/myns:employee[myns:id=10]/myns:name

Is there a way to specify a default namespace for Xalan like I do it for Xerces?

No, XPath 1.0 does not support a default namespace for path expressions.

Dave