- From: Fabrizio Fioravanti <ff@exitech.it>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:06:20 +0100
- To: www-xpath-comments@w3.org
- CC: Gianni Grassi <g.grassi@exitech.fi.it>, Giacomo Villoresi <g.villoresi@exitech.fi.it>
Dear all,
My problem is related to the fact that is seems to be impossible with
Xpath to define a fully qualified name of an element if I have not
defined an alias for its namespace and I suggest to add to Xpath a way
to set the namespace of an element also if it belong to the local
default namespace.
This fact is evidenced by the following document
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<a xmlns="http://www.foo.org">
<b>my first b</b>
<b xmlns="http://www.foobar.org">another namespace</b>
<b>my second b</b>
</a>
where:
//b detects:
<b>my first b</b>
<b>my second b</b>
//*[local-name()='b'] detects all the b
<b>my first b</b>
<b xmlns="http://www.foobar.org">another namespace</b>
<b>my second b</b>
//*[name()='b'] detects all the b
<b>my first b</b>
<b xmlns="http://www.foobar.org">another namespace</b>
<b>my second b</b>
How can I get only the b in the http://www.foobar.org namespace?
It should be useful to have something like:
/a/{http://www.foobar.org}:b
since the only way seems to be to have:
/a/*[name()='b' and namespace-uri()="http://www.foobar.org"]
All the best,
Fabrizio
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