Could you please provide me sample code of how I would do this. It's not very clear to me from this email what to do. I tried using PrefixResolverDefault, but don't know exactly what to do with it. I tried creating the elements using createElementNS, but that didn't work either. I would really appreciate it if you could guide me how I can do what's said in the email below.
Thank you very much for taking the time. Malia -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Kesselman/Watson/IBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:06 PM To: Malia Zaheer <mzaheer Cc: xalan-j-users Subject: Re: can't retrieve node with prefix To retrieve a node that has been place in a namespace, you _must_ specify the same namespace in your XPath. You do that by using a prefix in the XPath string, and by providing a prefix resolution context which maps that prefix into the same namespace URI that was used in the document. In the simple version of the XPathAPI call you're using, the parent node will be used as the prefix resolver context; any namespace prefixes declared on or above that parent node should be picked up and used. If you need to reference namespaces which aren't defined at that level, you'll have to use one of the fancier versions of the XPathAPI: selectSingleNode(contextNode,string,namspaceNode) Here, the namespaceNode may be any DOM node, so if you don't already have a node handy which has all the proper namespace context you can fall back on hand-generating a DOM node which does. Lower-level calls such as XPathAPI.eval() allow you to plug in hand-coded prefix-to-namespace resolvers, if that ever becomes necessary.. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
