Re: [xml] XPath problem with namespaces

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

On 07.06.2004 19:06, Erik F. Andersen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to get an understanding of XPath and are having problems getting things to work. I have basically 
> been looking everywhere for an example of how to use namespaces with XPath and XMLLib2 without much success. 
> My XML looks (something) like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope 
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; 
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xmlns:SOAPENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";>
> <SOAP-ENV:Body 
> SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; 
> wsu:Id="Id-59ef0d9b-1ac6-4fff-85cb-3f52ec95c47c" 
> xmlns:wsu="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility";>
> <NS1:GetFormularArray xmlns:NS1="urn:AesSoapServiceIntf-IAesSoapService">
>
> All I want to do now is to select the SOAP-ENV:Body element but I haven't been able to figure out how to to this yet! Can anyone please tell me what the correct syntax for XPath is to do this? 

in your document it is

  /SOAP-ENV:envelope/SOAP-ENV:body

or a somwhat slower variant

  //SOAP-ENV:body

Doesn't that work?

Ciao,
Igor