Craig Buchanan wrote:
> 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.

You where shown how to use e.g.
   xmlDoc.setProperty('SelectionNamespace', 
'xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"');
to bind a prefix to the namespace URI so that you can then write XPath 
expressions like
   //xhtml:li[xhtml:a[contains(@href, 'aplushomecare.org')]]

If you don't want that then use the cumbersome local-name() approach but 
you need to keep the structure e.g.
   //*[local-name() = 'li'][*[local-name() = 'a'][contains(@href, 
'aplushomecare.org')]]
so that way you are looking for elements at all levels having the local 
name 'li' which have a child element having the local name 'a' where the 
attribute 'href' contains the string value.


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