Thanks for the code. But that might not be too
efficient for large xml documents, since there would
be a lot of looping for large xml documents.
I came up with an alternative that seems to work for
my situation:
// Get the namespace uri for inputDocument xml
document if any
String namespaceURI =
inputDocument.getRootElement().getNamespace().getURI();
// Set the namespace uri
HashMap map = new HashMap();
// Note: what prefix we choose to use for the
namespace does not matter
// In this case we just arbitrarily picked "w" as the
prefix for the namespace
map.put("w", namespaceURI);
NamespaceContext namespaceContext = new
SimpleNamespaceContext(map);
String primaryXPath =
"w:Document/w:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Primary']/w:LOGIN/w:USERID";
String primaryUserId =
getXmlElementUsingXPath(inputDocument, primaryXPath,
namespaceContext)
.getText();
And here is the implementation for the
getXmlElementUsingXPath() method:
private static Element
getXmlElementUsingXPath(Document document,
String xpathExpression, NamespaceContext
namespaceContext)
{
try
{
XPath xpath = new Dom4jXPath(xpathExpression);
xpath.setNamespaceContext(namespaceContext);
return (Element)
xpath.selectSingleNode(document);
}
catch (JaxenException e)
{
System.err.println("Trouble with Jaxen...");
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}
--- Evan Kirkconnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you not read our ongoing debate? It's very
> related. :-)
>
> Basically, the answer is 'no', but I think it should
> be 'yes'. If
> you're bold enough to remove the namespaces, take a
> look at code here:
>
>
http://www.mail-archive.com/dom4j-user%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg02511.html
>
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