Re: [xml] XPATH question when used with namespace

[Rich Salz <rsalz datapower com>]

> But with XPATH, when trying to access a particular element nodeset that
> is part of a namespace, the only solution I came upon was to use the
> contains clause. Is this normal behavior for XPATH or a Gnome feature?

You have two choices.  The simpler one, althought it may return a 
superset of what you want, is to use the local-name() operator

//Envelope-Request/Input-Parmaters/*[local-name()='Dataset']/*[local-name()='Row']

A better method is to create an XPath context, add a {ds, ....} 
namespace binding into it, and then use that context for search:
  //Envelope-Request/Input-Parameters/ds:Dataset/ds:Row

I don't know the details of adding a namespace binding into an XPath 
context.  A quick search through the docs didn't turn up anything 
obvious to me.  Note that there is nothing special about the "ds" 
prefix; you could use "FOO", and as long is FOO has the same URI value 
that "ds" does in the input document, it should work.
        /r$