Article:		Little Back Corners
Subject:		default namespaces
Date:		2005-06-09 12:09:01
From:		khote
I've been using CachedXPathAPI for lots of things lately (from Xalan, the 2.6.0 version in particular), as well as XMLUnit. XMLUnit has the very nice: assertXPathExists, but this does NOT work if you are using a default namespace. You cannot xpath for "//FeatureCollection" because FeatureCollection occurs in the default namespace xmlns="http://mydomain/schemas" Using an xpath string "//:FeatureCollection/gml:featureMember" does work in xalan-2.6.0's xpathapi, assuming you have a namespaceaware document or a node from a namespaceaware document. I use //*[local-name()='featureMember'] to get past any particular namespace (or no namespace or default namespace .... catch my breath)

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