XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Regier Avery J
<RegierAveryJ AT johndeere.com> wrote:
> Yet I can still do it.


Yes, what you can't now do (and used to be able to) is bind the
null/empty prefix to a namespace URI.

The prefixes in XPath expressions do not have to be the same as the
prefixes (or lack thereof) in the queried document.


>        public void testNotWithNamespace() throws ValidityException, 
> ParsingException, IOException {
>                Document doc = new Builder().build(new StringReader("<hi 
> xmlns='there://mr.space/alien'/>"));
>                XPathContext context = 
> XPathContext.makeNamespaceContext(doc.getRootElement());
>                context.addNamespace("a", 
> doc.getRootElement().getNamespaceURI());
>                Nodes query = doc.query("//*[not(self::a:human)]", context);
>                assertEquals(1, query.size());
>        }
>
>
> I am quite happy that this now works:
>
>
> Avery J. Regier
> IVS Solutions Infrastructure Technical Architect
> Work: 515 331-9905 / Cell: 309 781-1366
> RegierAveryJ AT JohnDeere.com
>
>
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> [mailto:xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Elliotte Rusty 
> Harold
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 12:49 PM
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>
> As Michael surmised, that's a deliberate bug fix. You should no longer
> need to bind anything to the default namespace.
>
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