Alexander Schneider wrote:

>> XPath 1.0 does not know anything like a default namespace thus the XPath 
>> expression //element always selects elements with the local name 
>> |element| in _no_ namespace.
> 
> I use a workaround and add for the default namespace the prefix "default". 
> Now my "selection Namespace" property was set to


> xmlns:default="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> 
> but I can't select something like "//element" but "//default:element" works 
> fine. 

That is not a work around but required by the way XPath 1.0 works. As I 
said already, in XPath 1.0 //element always selects elements in no 
namespace. XPath 1.0 does not know any default namespace declaration. If 
you want to select elements in a namespace (whether it is defined as a 
default namespace or not does not matter in terms of XPath) with an 
XPath 1.0 expression then you need to use e.g. //prefix:element where it 
depends on your XPath API how to bind that prefix to a namespace URI. So 
I suggested to choose a prefix and you have done so with "default" I 
think, now you can use XPath expressions like //default:element and that 
is the only way to select elements in a namespace with XPath 1.0.


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