Subject: [xsl] Re:XPathAPI: How to associate namespaces From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:14:05 -0400 |
(Apologies if this is a repost; I've been having some trouble convincing my mail system not to send HTML.) 1) XPath 1.0's syntax doesn't support default namespaces. To indicate a namespaced node, you *must* use a prefix in your XPath. A name without a prefix is taken as meaning you wand to find nodes which are in _no_ namespace. (There is a proposal to fix this in XPath 2.0.) 2) You also have to provide a binding from those prefixes to the namespace URIs they represent. This is not standardized in XPath 1.0. (There is a proposal to fix this in XPath 2.0.) Xalan's XPathAPI class offers three options, via different versions of the function calls: a) If you just pass in context node and the XPath, we will attempt to resolve prefixes in terms of namespaces known at the context node. As noted above, this does not include the default namespace; you'd need to have an explicit prefix bound to that same URI. (This can be considered a shorthand for option b.) b) If you pass in context node, XPath, and a "namespace context node", we will attempt to resolve prefixes in terms of namespaces known at the namespace context node. Same issues as above. c) You can write a class implementing the PrefixResolver interface, and pass it into XPathAPI in place of the namespace context node. In fact, the above two are implemented using an internal implementation of that interface. Again, this doesn't free you from needing to use a prefix in your XPath, but it does give you more flexibility in deciding how to handle it. You could base your solution on ours, or just look in a static table of prefix-to-URI bindings, or do whatever else seems appropriate. Note that this lookup should occur only *once*. If your default prefix changes five times along the course of your XPath, you may in fact need five separate prefixes to express that. See http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/apache/xpath/XPathAPI.html for details of how to use these Xalan features. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more. "may'ron DaroQbe'chugh vaj bIrIQbej" ("Put down the squeezebox and nobody gets hurt.") XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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