Thanks!

I'm an XPATH newbie... didn't even know the local-name() thing existed.

I've got several books on XSD, XPath, XML... .but boy there's an awful lot 
of stuff to know about these technologies to be productive in them!  A lot 
of it seems pretty archain(sp?) too.

I've been programming in C, Java, VB, SQL even assemby for decades, but only 
been really getting into this XML stuff in the last year or so.


"Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@n...> wrote in message 
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> Thomas Malia schrieb:
>> In particular, I want to create a path expression that will find all 
>> elements with a given basename regardless of the namespace.  In a book I 
>> have about XPath 2.0 it says I should be able to do something like:
>>
>> <<*:Element-Name>> but when I try this with MSXML4.0 I get "Expected 
>> token 'EOF' found ':'
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong or does MSXML4.0 not fully support XPath 2.0?
>
> None of Microsoft's (released) components support XPath 2.0 (IMHO).
>
> In this particular case, can't you just use
>
> "*[local-name()='Element-Name']"
>
> ?
>
> Best regards, Julian