Sorry, I misunderstood your question. Now I can see, there is a sample ApplyXPathDOM.java bundled with Xalan-J 2.7.0.
This sample tests the DOM L3 XPath API. I can see, that when the XML document doesn't use namespaces, then this sample works fine, and is infact a very useful utility. In fact, I think, the sample works fine when XML document uses namespaces too. You are running the utility as, java ApplyXPathDOM file.xml //ns:result And you expect, that all the element nodes matching the XPath expression ns:result will be returned. But you can't get the expected result by simply specifying the XPath expression as, //ns:result. There is no namespace binding present for prefix ns:. And you are getting the expected error from the utility. because there doesn't exist any context in this case, which supplies the namespace binding. The workaround you tried (and which works), //*[local-name()='result' and namespace-uri()='http://biz.aol.com/schema/2006-12-18' ] works, because the XPath expression is complete. I suggest, please use this workaround for your purpose. On 9/3/07, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
