RE: XPath and Namespace

[Radu Preotiuc-Pietro]

See my previous post (7/21) for an example provided by Tony Dean with namespaces in XPaths. Here is the relevant code:   > Sring ns = "declare namespace ns='http://tempuri.org/myService';"; > String xpath = ns + > "$this/ns:copyintoout/ns:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Tony']"; > XmlObject[] selections = soapBody.selectPath(xpath); There is nothing for that in XmlOptions because there is a "semi-standard" way of doing it by using 'declare namespace pipeline="http://nrg.wustl.edu/pipeline"' and we stick to that.   Hope this helps, Radu   From: Mohana Ramaratnam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:06 AM To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org Subject: XPath and Namespace If I have an instance document like so:   <Pipeline xmlns="http://nrg.wustl.edu/pipeline" xmlns:prov="http://www.nbirn.net/prov" xmlns:xdat="http://nrg.wustl.edu/xdat" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://nrg.wustl.edu/xnat C:\\schema\pipeline.xsd"> <parameters>              <parameter>                     <name>fidldir</name>                     <value>/fidl/fidl_2.60/bin</value>              </parameter>              <parameter>                     <name>rlbdir</name>                     <value>/Pipeline/parameters/parameter[name='fidldir']/value/text() </value>              </parameter> </parameters> </Pipeline>   And I want to evaluate the xpath _expression_:   /Pipeline/parameters/parameter[name='fidldir']/value/text()   Is it necessary for the namespace prefix of pipeline: to be present in the _expression_ /Pipeline/parameters/parameter[name='fidldir']/value/text() for xpath to be evaluated correctly?   Ie should the _expression_ be:   /pipeline:Pipeline/pipeline:parameters/pipeline:parameter[pipeline:name='fidldir']/pipeline:value/text()   (as in the samples)   How do I set the namespace so that the instance document xpath _expression_ need not have the namespace prefixed. I have looked into XmlOptions and didn’t find anything useful.       _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it.