* Craig Buchanan wrote in microsoft.public.xml:
>I'm having difficulty with an Xpath on an XML document (snippet below) that 
>contains a default namespace.
>
>If I remove the default namespace, this Xpath produces the desired result: 
>//li[a[@href[contains(.,'aplushomecare.org')]]].  Essentially, i want a 'li' 
>element if its contains an 'a' element with a href attribute that contains 
>the desired text.
>
>I tried 
>//*[local-name()='li'][local-name()='a'][@href[contains(.,'aplushomecare.org')]], 
>but it returns no nodes.
>
>Any assistance would be appreciated.

You need to setup a prefix for the default namespace and use that prefix
in the expression. How to do that depends on what XML toolkit you use.
The expression you are looking for is e.g.

  //xhtml:li[ xhtml:a[ contains(@href, 'aplus...') ] ]

Matching only on the local-name() (and ideally also the namespace-uri())
would also work, but the latter expression above matches any element
with a local-name() that is both 'li' and 'a', which is impossible.
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