XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[T Benjamins <davidbowie2nl AT yahoo.com>]

Hello all,

suppose i have an xml plant_catalog.xml like this:
<CATALOGxmlns="http://www.blabla.nl/namespace";><PLANT><COMMON>Bloodroot</COMMON><BOTANICAL>Sanguinaria
 canadensis</BOTANICAL><ZONE>4</ZONE><LIGHT>Mostly 
Shady</LIGHT><PRICE>$2.44</PRICE><AVAILABILITY>031599</AVAILABILITY> 
</CATALOG>
 
while running the following code in xom 1.2.1 (depending on jaxen 1.1.2)
 
i get an empty Nodes object while running the following xpath query.
 Builder parser = 
Document doc = parser.build(
Element root = doc.getRootElement();
XPathContext con = XPathContext.makeNamespaceContext(root);
Nodes n =root.query(
 
so it is aware of the namespace applied to the document, but jaxen produces 
an empy result.
Is this a bug or not??
 
when the xml does not contain a default namespace declaration it returns a 
list of all the PLANT nodes in the Nodes object with the same code. 
 
greetings Tom  newBuilder();"plant_catalog.xml");"//PLANT", con); 
</PLANT>....the namespace context object contains an xpath entry for "" = 
http://....



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You didn't specify your XPath, but remember that in an XPath
expression unqualified names never match any name in a namespace. All
qualified names in an XPath expression MUST be prefixed, regardless of
the what prefix is or is not used in the document you're querying.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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