Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> Below is a simplified version of the file from which I am trying to use 
> XPATH to extract some values. My code seems to work with no namespaces but 
> the SVG namespaces are messing me up (I think).
> 
> Here is my XPATH I'm trying to parse with MSXML2. I've tried it with and 
> without the "svg:" and it does not work.

> //L"/html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/svg:svg/svg:g/svg:text/[@class=\"tch\"]"
> 
> L"/html/svg:svg/svg:g/svg:text/[@class=\"tch\"]"

That is not correct XPath syntax, you can't do /[...] so drop the slash e.g.
   L"/html/svg:svg/svg:g/svg:text[@class=\"tch\"]"

Also with MSXML (3 and later) to use XPath expressions with prefixes you 
need to call setProperty("SelectionNamespaces", "namespace bindings") 
e.g. (pseudo code in JScript syntax)
   xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces", 
"xmlns:xhtml='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' 
xmlns:svg='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'");
then you can use the prefixes in your XPath expressions e.g.
 
/xhtml:html/xhtml:body/xhtml:form/xhtml:table/xhtml:tbody/xhtml:tr[2]/xhtml:td/svg:svg/svg:g/svg:text[@class="tch"]

Also note that with MSXML 3 you first need to select XPath as the 
selection language e.g
   xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");

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