XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Jan 6, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> 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.

Via "prefix:foo/prefix:bar/prefix:baz", so namespace info needs to be 
passed to the query.
In Nux namespaces can be declared in the standard XQuery prolog or 
dynamically bound via the StaticContext of saxon-8.2.

Wolfgang,.