This is because if you look through documentation closely enough you will find out that the default namespace is not supported by XPath. So the only solution to your problem really is to add namespace prefixs to each of your elements in your XML instance.
Laura Piccand R�gis wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing something rather surprising ... If I execute the code > snippet herebelow, "startingNode" is set to null. However, if I comment the > three db.fsetAttribute() call, "startingNode" is set to the correct node ... > The funny thing is that the ouput of the dom (XMLTools.write()) is exactly > the same ... > > Any help will be more than welcome, > > Thanks in advance and best regards, > > R�gis > > private String NAMESPACES_FEATURE_ID = > "http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces";; > private String VALIDATION_FEATURE_ID = > "http://xml.org/sax/features/validation";; > private String SCHEMA_VALIDATION_FEATURE_ID = > "http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema";; > > try > { > String path = "the path to my xml file" ; > DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = > DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance() ; > dbf.setAttribute(SCHEMA_VALIDATION_FEATURE_ID, new > Boolean(true)); > dbf.setAttribute(NAMESPACES_FEATURE_ID, new Boolean(true)); > dbf.setAttribute(VALIDATION_FEATURE_ID, new Boolean(true)); > DocumentBuilder domBuilder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder() ; > EdocErrorHandler errorHandler = new EdocErrorHandler() ; > domBuilder.setErrorHandler(errorHandler); > Document dom = domBuilder.parse(path) ; > Node startingNode = > XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(dom.getDocumentElement(), "metadata/DCMI/") ; > XMLTools.write(dom, System.out, "ISO-8859-1", true); > } > catch(Exception e) > { > e.printStackTrace(); > } > > snippet of the XML document : > > <e-document version="0.1" xmlns="http://www.imtf.com/e-document"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imtf.com/e-document edoc.xsd"> > <metadata> > <DCMI> > <contributor>R�gis Piccand</contributor> > <etc.> > </DCMI> > </metadata> > </e-document> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
