XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

John Cowan wrote:

> Neither XOM nor XPath has any notion of the default namespace (an NCName
> in an XPath refers to the namespace named "", not anything else --
> a frequent source of bugs in XPaths).


My point here is that when querying a document that uses the default 
namespace (e.g. XHTML) you have to use a prefix in the XPath expression, 
and that prefix will generally not be declared in the document you're 
querying, so some additional namespace binding is required, especially 
if you don't want to modify the document being queried. Sorry if I 
didn't say that quite right the first time, but that's the issue: how do 
you query a document that uses default namespaces.


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