Thanks, but I'm not using a stylesheet, The application is JMeter - we have an XPath extractor which can be used to extract items from an XML document sample - there is no stylesheet involved, just the XML document and the XPath query.
S/// On 03/09/07, Mukul Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to provide the namespace declaration, > xmlns:ns="http://biz.aol.com/schema/2006-12-18"; in the stylesheet > also. Then it should work. > > For e.g., this stylesheet > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; > xmlns:ns="http://biz.aol.com/schema/2006-12-18"; > version="1.0"> > > <xsl:output method="text" /> > > <xsl:template match="/"> > <xsl:value-of select="count(//ns:result)" /> > </xsl:template> > > </xsl:stylesheet> > > When applied to your source document, works fine. > > On 9/3/07, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using xalan-j 2.7.0; testing using the ApplyXPathDOM sample code. > > ==== > > > > Sample XML document: > > > > === > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <soapenv:Envelope > > xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> > > <soapenv:Body > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> > > <ns:registerOfferResponse xmlns:ns="http://biz.aol.com/schema/2006-12-18";> > > <ns:result>0</ns:result> > > </ns:registerOfferResponse> > > </soapenv:Body> > > </soapenv:Envelope> > > === > > > > Using the XPath > > > > //ns:result > > > > generates the error: > > > > "Prefix must resolve to a namespace: ns" > > > > If I move the declaration to the top-level element in the xml document, as > > in > > > > === > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:ns="http://biz.aol.com/schema/2006-12-18"; > > xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> > > <soapenv:Body > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> > > <ns:registerOfferResponse> > > <ns:result>0</ns:result> > > </ns:registerOfferResponse> > > </soapenv:Body> > > </soapenv:Envelope> > > === > > > > then the XPath //ns:result works fine. > > > > I get the same error as before if "ns" is declared in the Body element. > > > > It apears that the XPath processing requires the namespace to be > > defined only in the top-level element, whereas AIUI XML allows the > > namespace to be defined on first use of an namespace. > > > > Is this correct? > > > > If so, is there any way to tell xalan to use the namespace > > declarations from child elements? > > > > BTW, I have seen a work-round, which is to use the query: > > > > //*[local-name()='result' and > > namespace-uri()='http://biz.aol.com/schema/2006-12-18' ] > > > > but that is really messy. > > > > S/// > > > > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi >
