At 2010-06-03 16:35 -0400, Tim Meagher wrote:
>Ultimately what I'm looking for is a way to automatically discover a
>namespace in any given so that if I want to access it's contents I
>don't have to know the namespace ahead of time,
Not sure what you are saying there.
>but it would be cool to have an app that can descend a document and
>layout the xpath and namespace of each node.
I hope the example below helps. It exposes the complete path of
elements from the document element to each element in the instance.
. . . . . . . . . Ken
~/t $ cat paths.xml
<hello xmlns:abc="urn:X-abc">
<abc:def>
<ghi xmlns="urn:X-ghi"/>
</abc:def>
</hello>
~/t $ cat paths.xq
'
',
for $each in doc( 'paths.xml' )//*
return concat( '/',
string-join( $each/ancestor-or-self::*/concat('{',
namespace-uri-for-prefix(substring-before(name(.),':'),.),
'}',local-name(.)),'/'),
'
' )
~/t $ xquery paths.xq
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
/{}hello
/{}hello/{urn:X-abc}def
/{}hello/{urn:X-abc}def/{urn:X-ghi}ghi
~/t $
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