Bubba wrote:

> <ItemInformation xmlns="http://tempuri.org/ItemInfo.xsd">
>   <ItemDetails>
>     <Title>This is the item title</Title>
>     <State>This is the item state</State>
>     <ItemCost ... />
>     <ItemCost ... />
>     <ReOrder>
>        <MinLevel>25000</MinLevel>
>        <MaxLevel ... />
>     </ReOrder>
>   </ItemDetails>
> </ItemInformation>
> 
> The ItemInfo.xsd file does not exist. But how do I extract the Title 
> element using XPath from this file? I've tried all manner of syntax but 
> never get any results, can anyone help here please.

With the namespace declaration (xmlns="http://tempuri.org/ItemInfo.xsd") 
in the XML document the ItemInformation element and its descendants are 
in the namespace http://tempuri.org/ItemInfo.xsd. For XPath 1.0 to 
select elements in a namespace you need to bind a prefix to the 
namespace URI and use that prefix in the XPath expression to qualify 
element names e.g.
/pf:ItemInformation/pf:ItemDetails/pf:Title
where the prefix pf is bound to the namespace URI 
http://tempuri.org/ItemInfo.xsd.
How you bind a prefix to a namespace URI depends on the XPath API or 
XPath host language (e.g. XSLT) you use. See 
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/34022/fid/1753 for 
some examples.

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