XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Mike Miller <mm8041 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> See, life could be Simple  ;-)   But if I want it to be, I now need to
> configure XOM
> with another XPATH engine, which results in more challenges.  I just want
> my
>
>
You don't *have* to move to XPath2.0. By using XPathContext
http://www.xom.nu/apidocs/nu/xom/XPathContext.html you can choose a prefix
that binds your namespace to a prefix of your choice.


> document data, is that too much to ask ;-)
>
> You *have* to understand what the namespaces in your document are. You
don't give details on the "crap" but I guess it includes

xmlns=""

which assigns the default namespace to nodes in /a/b/c

or xmlns="http://foo.org";

which binds a specific namespace to it

By using XPathContext you can create an explicit prefix bound to the
namespace and include it in your XPath. Alternatively and I think simpler
you can use local-name() which will do the same as the * in XPath 2.0





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