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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26823 XPath ignores namespace declarations except on root element ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-02-10 14:30 ------- I believe this is working as designed. The problem isn't the namespaces in your source document -- it's the namespaces in your XPath. The document is fine. But the XPathAPI defaults to picking up understanding of how namespace prefixes are bound *only* from the namespaces actually declared on the namespace context node; it does not search the subtree for them (which would be slow, could have conflicts, etc.) Either provide (construct?) a namespace context node which does declare all the prefixes your XPath needs, or plug in a prefix resolver to provide those bindings. See the alternative forms of XPathAPI invocation at http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/apache/xpath/XPathAPI.html (Yes, it would be nice if XPath had a version which included prefix bindings in the path syntax, or which used actual namespace URIs rather than prefixes, so you could write truly portable self-contained XPaths. I've been grumbling about that for a very long time...)
