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Manikandan SurendranathSubject: XPath query doesnot work if xml has namespace declaration
Author: Manikandan Surendranath
Date: 06 Apr 2005 06:57 AM
I have an xml exported from MS-Excel. I opened it in SS and gave the XPath query "/Workbook/Worksheet/Table" the query resulted with no hits.
However if remove the namespace declaration from the root node, i.e.

<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

changed to
<Workbook>

The query works. What is the problem here?

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(Deleted User) Subject: XPath query doesnot work if xml has namespace declaration
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 06 Apr 2005 07:52 AM
XPath 1.0 does not use default namespaces (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests,
"A QName in the node test is expanded into an expanded-name using the namespace
declarations from the expression context. This is the same way expansion is
done for element type names in start and end-tags except that the default
namespace declared with xmlns is not used: if the QName does not have a prefix,
then the namespace URI is null"), so writing "/Workbook" will not match
the <Workbook xmlns="..."> element in your XML.
The correct XPath query is "/ss:Workbook/ss:Table....."

Hope this helps,
Alberto

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Manikandan SurendranathSubject: XPath query doesnot work if xml has namespace declaration
Author: Manikandan Surendranath
Date: 06 Apr 2005 11:50 AM
It works, Thanks.
   
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