Re: [xml] Re: XPath evaluation and namespace prefixes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:45:17PM -0500, Kei wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a rookie question on this regard.
>
> Let's say I have this xml document.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <catalog xmlns="www.mycoolcdcollection.com">
>  <cd>
>   <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
>   <artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
>  </cd>
>  <cd>
>   <title>Hide your heart</title>
>   <artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist>
>  </cd>
> </catalog>
>
> I'm trying to do XPath to find all the title nodes.
> My XPath expression is simply "//title", and it fails to find any node.
>
> If I remove the default xml namspace declaration in <catalog>, it works
> fine.

  That's normal, that's how the XPath spec is designed.
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests

Daniel

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