If all of your elements are in the http://docbook.org/ns/docbook namespace and you don't want to have to bother with the "db:" prefix on every element in your XPath, you could try the following alternative:
xquery version "1.0-ml"; (: buffer 2 :) declare default element namespace "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";; doc("/nimas/ch01.xml")/book/chapter/title Doug Glidden Software Engineer The Boeing Company douglass.a.glid...@boeing.com _____ From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of David Scott Gurney Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 23:51 To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion Subject: RE: RE: [MarkLogic Dev General] X-path not working in XML Fileshaving name space reference!!!! You might try this: xquery version "1.0-ml"; (: buffer 2 :) declare namespace db = "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";; doc("/nimas/ch01.xml")/db:book/db:chapter/db:title The default namespace is http://docbook.org/ns/docbook - thus the need for the db namespace David From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Mohanraj Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:35 PM To: general@developer.marklogic.com Subject: RE: RE: [MarkLogic Dev General] X-path not working in XML Files having name space reference!!!! Hi Geert, As per the details asked, i have given the data below. 1. Sample XML File <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <book xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance> xmlns:qti="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1";<http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1> xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/";<http://purl.org/dc/terms/> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema> xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";<http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink> xsi:schemaLocation="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook .\hmhdocbook\hmhdocbook.xsd"<http://docbook.org/ns/docbook./hmhdocbook/hmhdocbook.xsd> xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";<http://docbook.org/ns/docbook>> <info> <dc:title>Eastern World</dc:title> <dc:creator>Christopher L. Salter</dc:creator> </info> <chapter xml:id="ID_9780030995040_CHAPTER01_chap_1" role="chapter"> <title>Chapter 1 A Geographer's World</title> <!--<pagenums role="" xml:id="p2" type="normal">2</pagenums>--> <para><emphasis role="bold">What You Will Learn…</emphasis></para> <para>In this chapter you will learn about the field of geography, the study of the world's people and places. You will also learn why people study geography and how they organize their studies.</para> <note xml:id="ID_9780030995040_CHAPTER01_note_1"> <title>Focus on Reading and Writing</title> <para><emphasis role="bold">Using Prior Knowledge</emphasis> Prior knowledge is what you already know about a subject. Before you read a chapter, review the chapter and section titles. Then make a list of what you already know. Later, you can compare your prior knowledge with what you learned from the chapter. <emphasis role="bold">See the lesson, Using Prior Knowledge, on page 668.</emphasis></para> <para><emphasis role="bold">Writing a Job Description</emphasis> Geographers are people who study geography, but what is it exactly that they do? As you read this chapter you will learn about the work that geographers do. Then you will write a job description that could be included in a career-planning guide.</para> </note> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata format="jpg" fileref="./images/u01c01/p002_001.jpg" align="left"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <sidebar xml:id="ID_9780030995040_CHAPTER01_sidebar_1"> <title>HOLT Geography's Impact <inlinemediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata format="jpg" fileref="./images/thruout/tv_icon.jpg" align="left"/> </imageobject></inlinemediaobject></title> <para><emphasis role="bold">video series</emphasis> Watch the video to understand the impact of studying geography.</para> </sidebar> <section xml:id="ID_9780030995040_CHAPTER01_sect1_1" role="section" standardcode=""> <!--<pagenums role="" xml:id="p4" type="normal">4</pagenums>--> <title>Section 1 Studying Geography</title> <para><emphasis role="bold">If YOU lived there…</emphasis></para> <para>You have just moved to Miami, Florida, from your old home in Pennsylvania. Everything seems very different—from the weather and the trees to the way people dress and talk. Even the streets and buildings look different. One day you get an e-mail from a friend at your old school. “What's it like living there?” he asks.</para> <qti:assessmentItem identifier="extendedText" title="" adaptive="false" timeDependent="false" label="" standardcode=""> <qti:itemBody><qti:p>How will you describe your new home?</qti:p> <qti:extendedTextInteraction responseIdentifier="RESPONSE" expectedLength="200"/> </qti:itemBody></qti:assessmentItem> </section> </chapter> </book> 2. Sample X-path Expression xquery version "1.0-ml"; (: buffer 2 :) declare namespace html = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";<http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>; doc("/nimas/ch01.xml")/book/chapter/title Kindly give me a suggestion for this problem. Thanks & Regards, Mohanraj D, Software Programmer, Laserwords Private Limited,India. +91-9445451318. 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