Re: [xml] Default namespaces with XPath

[Stefano Debenedetti <ste webaccess mozquito com>]

Can't you go:

/*[local-name()='presence']/*[local-name()='tuple']

or even:

/*[local-name()='presence'][namespace-uri()='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:cpim-pidf']/*[local-name()='tuple'][namespace-uri()='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:cpim-pidf']

?

ste


Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 01:42:40PM +0530, Ganesh Sivaraman wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >   I'm still learning the ropes with XML. I understand I can use XPath to access particular nodes in the DOM 
> > tree.
> > I have a xml doc. with default namespaces as below:
>
> [...]
>
> > What am I doing wrong and how do I use XPath with default namespaces?
>
>
>   You cannot, it's a restriction of the XPath specification !
> You have to define a prefix for the namespace, register it with
> xmlXPathRegisterNs() and use that prefix in the XPath expression.
> There is no way around this, this is defined in the XPath spec
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests
>
>
> Daniel