RE: XPath and root-less namespace problem

> > 
> > My XPath of:
> > 
> >     //definitions/service/port[@name='IZPOP3service']/*/@location
> > 
> > returns nothing.
> > 
> > However, if I remove the
> > "xmlns='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl'" from my
> > code, it works BEAUTIFULLY. 
> 
>   //x:definitions/x:service/x:port[@name='IZPOP3service']/*/@location
> 
> with ns-prefix x bound to URL 
> http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ will work.
> 
> 
> Great.  How do I do this programmatically in Java?
> 

It rather depends on what Java API you are using. There is no standard
Java API for XPath processing, but all the various APIs that I have seen
provide some mechanism for binding namespaces.

Michael Kay


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