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Mikhail Teterin wrote: > $xml selectNodes {//mp:date} > > does not find any, but > > $xml selectNodes {//*[name()="mp:date"]} > > works. What's the reason for the difference? XPath is namespace-aware. To select a namespaced node, you must use a prefix in your path (which you did) and tell your XPath evaluator what the prefix bound to (which you didn't). Look at the user's manual for your tool. (comp.lang.xml doesn't exist on my server, so I can't crosspost there.)

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