[jdom-interest] Two namespace-questions (revisited)

[Kai Wörner]

In this case it is Oxygen, actually. I simply open the document, type
"//s" into the XPath-textfield and get all "s"-Elements.

Kai



2007/6/7, Michael Kay <mike at saxonica.com>:
> > Thanks - this did the biggest part of the trick - I can now
> > use XPath-Strings the same way I can do it in other software.
>
> As a matter of interest, what is this "other software" (which seems not to
> follow the XPath specification)? It seems to have had the classic effect
> that happens when you don't follow standards - your users get extremely
> confused when they encounter other products behaving in different ways.
>
> > The returned elements still contain a
> >
> > xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
> >
> > that they don't have in the original document, tho.
>
> I think they *do* have it in the original document - in the sense that an
> element "has" not only its own namespace declarations but all the namespace
> declarations on its ancestors. When you take an element out of its parental
> context, you don't typically want it to move to a different namespace as a
> side-effect.
>
> To put it another way, in the XPath data model the following two documents
> are equivalent
>
> (1) <a xmlns="z"><b/></a>
>
> (2) <a xmlns="z"><b xmlns="z"/></a>
>
> (the first is just a shorthand for the second), and you wouldn't want //b to
> give different results for the two cases.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>