I tried this xpath example in my route and got the below exception: My Route definition: from("file://C:/folders/inbox?noop=true").split(xpath("/*/child::pss:persons/text()")).to("file://C:/folders/outbox");
Caused by: com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.domapi.XPathStylesheetDOM3Exception: Prefix must resolve to a namespace: pss at com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.compiler.XPathParser.errorForDOM3(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.compiler.Lexer.mapNSTokens(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.compiler.Lexer.tokenize(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.compiler.Lexer.tokenize(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.compiler.XPathParser.initXPath(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.XPath.<init>(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.XPath.<init>(Unknown Source) ... 46 more I can understand that I have to define the namespace but where do I do that? Regards, Jothi On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Joe San <codeintheo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok. After a bit of reading about xPath, I have the following. But not sure > if this would work as expected. > > The xml: > > .... > .... > <pss:persons xmlns:pss="persons:datatype"> > <rss:person xmlns:rss="person:datatype"> > <name>jothi</name> > <age>32</age> > <gender>M</gender> > </rss:person> > </ns:persons> > .... > .... > > The xPath: > > /*/child:psst:persons/text() > > Would fetch me all the tags under pss:persons. Did I get this right? > > Regards, > Jothi >