Re: [xml] XPath question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:09:41PM -0400, Ed Day wrote:
> I am relatively new to XPath, so perhaps there is something I don't
> understand here.  I am using the following XPath expression:
>
> /MyElement
>
> to try and match the following simple node:
>
> <MyElement
> xmlns="http://test.commerceone.com/global_element/SimpleTypeNested";>true</My
> Element>
>
> This is coming back as a non-match. Apparently something in the namespace
> declaration is causing this.  If I remove that, or replace it with an

  And this is coming back as XPath #1 FAQ. A default namespace is a 
namespace and /MyElement won't select a namespaced element by definition
of the XPath language. Check the archives 

Daniel

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