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xPath and default namespaces.
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- Subject: [xsl] xPath and default namespaces.
- From: dwight funk <dfunk at powerwayinc dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:25:04 -0500
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I'm having some problems with resolving an xPath expression on some XML that
sets a default namespace like this XHTML code.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Testing Title</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<p>Test</p>
</body>
</html>
The XPath expression will not work : "//body". Why not ?
I've noticed it works if I include an extra colon in the xmlns or give the
namespace a name.
<html xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en"
lang="en">
I assume this is not syntactically correct and a deviation from the XHTML
standard
I've been told that this behavior is part of the xPath specification. xPath
doesn't like default namespaces.
What is going on here ???
Dwight Funk
POWERWAY, Inc.
(317) 566-5401
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