Hi, from what I remember, You can get rid of namespace wildcards if you just declare a default element namespace for your query :
declare default element namespace 'http://psidev.info/psi/pi/mzIdentML/1.1'; db:open("myrimatchSubset","20160312_17_B3_myrimatch_2_2_140.xml")/MzIdentML/SequenceCollection/Peptide Another way is to declare explicitly your namespace (here named mz but you could choose any other name) : declare namespace mz = 'http://psidev.info/psi/pi/mzIdentML/1.1'; db:open("myrimatchSubset","20160312_17_B3_myrimatch_2_2_140.xml")/mz:MzIdentML/mz:SequenceCollection/mz:Peptide Best regards, Fabrice Etanchaud -----Message d'origine----- De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Witold E Wolski Envoyé : mercredi 1 mars 2017 10:18 À : [email protected] Objet : [basex-talk] querying xml with namespaces. Apologies if I am hard to understand but I am new to the XML querying. I would like to query an XML with namespaces. As I did learn, you can do it in BaseX by including an *: in your path, e.g., db:open("myrimatchSubset","20160312_17_B3_myrimatch_2_2_140.xml")/*:MzIdentML/*:SequenceCollection/*:Peptide But I would like to be more specific than *. I did search the schema for the XML and all I found related to the search term namespace is not brief name, but: targetNamespace="http://psidev.info/psi/pi/mzIdentML/1.1"; I did also found the following entry on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5239685/xml-namespace-breaking-my-xpath And If I interpret the answer there correctly somehow one can register his own acronym for a namespace? Is this correct? So I am wondering if I could do the same somehow in BaseX? Alternatively, I am wondering if I could tell BaseX to disable namespace checking? Thank you a lot -- Witold Eryk Wolski
