Martin,

This is a little different twist on things using a namespaced reference even 
though the original document does not use a namespace.

I will have to give that a try. In .net you would create a namespacemanager 
with the default url and then reference the nodes without the namespace 
syntax, selectSingleNode( "root/bar" )

Thanks for the response. I also need to dig in a little deeper into the 
xpath 1.0 statements. I found those in several articles that I now need to 
research a bit more. 
-- 
Scott Norberg


"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> Scott Norberg wrote:
> > I have read that MSXML 4-6 only support XPath 1.0 which does not support 
> > default namespaces.
> 
> MSXML 3-6 support XPath and XSLT 1.0, that is correct. However the 
> Microsoft .NET framework APIs like XPathNavigator and 
> XslCompiledTransform do not support XPath and XSLT 2.0 either.
> So unless you use third party tools like Saxon or AltovaXML tools you 
> have the same XSLT and XPath support with MSXML and .NET.
> 
> As for "XPath 1.0" "does not support default namespaces", I am not sure 
> what you want to say with that. You can parse XML documents using 
> default namespace declarations with both MSXML and .NET and then use 
> XPath 1.0 to select nodes in those namespace by binding a prefix to a 
> namespace and by using that prefix in your XPath expression.
> 
> With MSXML you would use setProperty('SelectionNamespaces', 
> 'xmlns:prefix="http://example.com/foo"'), with .NET you would use an 
> XmlNamespaceManager and pass that to Select/SelectSingleNode calls (with 
> XPathNavigator) or SelectNodes/SelectSingleNode calls (with 
> XmlDocument/XmlNode).
> 
> 
> Here is an example with JScript and selectSingleNode and MSXML 6:
> 
> var doc = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0');
> doc.loadXML('<root 
> xmlns="http://example.com/foo"><bar>foobar</bar></root>');
> doc.setProperty('SelectionNamespaces', 'xmlns:df="' + 
> doc.documentElement.namespaceURI + '"');
> var bar = doc.selectSingleNode('df:root/df:bar');
> alert(bar.text)
> 
> Works fine.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>