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Re: Query re XMLSpy XPath engine
At 3:56 PM +0100 7/22/02, Jeni Tennison wrote:
But the hr element has a default namespace declaration on it, for the
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace. The scope of a namespace
declaration is the element that it's on and the contents of that
element, so the default namespace declaration in scope on the hr
element is the one for http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml, and thus the hr
element is in the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.
You're right. I missed that. Weird example.
Whether the XPath:
//html:hr
should retrieve it is, of course, another matter, since it entirely
depends on the namespace associated with the prefix 'html' in the
context in which the XPath is being used...
Yes. That may be why it doesn't find it, because the html prefix is
mapped to something else or not mapped at all.
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