Saxon

Legacy ID: #5730466 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

I don't think you've told us what the XPath expression is - what's in strExpr? Also, how is it failing? Unless you've coded the XPath expression rather carefully, it's not going to find anything, because you haven't declared any namespaces, but all your source elements are in a namespace. Michael Kay

Legacy ID: #5730537 Legacy Poster: Nuno Ferreira (nferr)

The xpath expression i'm using is "//report/text()" without the quotes. The "temp" list is empty after the xpath evaluate. What you've said about the namespace makes sense. Thank you.

Legacy ID: #5748250 Legacy Poster: Nuno Ferreira (nferr)

How do i declare the namespace on the code? I can't find any reference to this declaration Thanks

Legacy ID: #5748633 Legacy Poster: David Lee (daldei)

If your using the XPath class I think you need to implement a NamespaceContext and set it with setNamespaceContext(). Since your using Saxon nodes as the result anyway, you could use the S9API from saxon instead of the JAXP interfaces. That uses XPathCompiler.declareNamespace()

Legacy ID: #5751315 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

The JAXP XPath interface is designed for XPath 1.0, in which an unprefixed element name always refers to an element in no namespace. Since your elements are in a namespace, you'll have to use a prefix in the XPath expression, and bind that prefix to a namespace using the setNamespaceContext() method - which is pretty clumsy. I'd suggest using s9api instead, this gives you much better capability to take advantage of XPath 2.0, including the ability to define a namespace for unprefixed element names in the path expression. To do this, call xpathCompiler.declareNamespace("", "http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron") Michael Kay

Legacy ID: #5751537 Legacy Poster: Nuno Ferreira (nferr)

Thanks for the hint! One last question: is there a way to interpret the text inside a tag only as text? I'm asking this because if i put xpath commands that i want them to be considered text, instead they are executed as xpath commands. Thank you.

Legacy ID: #5753586 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

The content of a text node will only be treated as an XPath expression if you go out of your way to ask for it to be treated as such.

Legacy ID: #5757034 Legacy Poster: Nuno Ferreira (nferr)

Even though, how can i get "GAME <value-of select="@"/>" from the line <report test=".">GAME <value-of select="@"/></report> , instead of "GAME " . The XPath command i'm running is //report/text(). I'm guessing that in this case the "<value-of select="@*"/>" is considered XML and not text

Legacy ID: #5757064 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

report/text() explicitly requests the text node children. It won't return any element node children. If you want both the text nodes and the element nodes, use report/node(). If you want the content of the report element serialized as lexical XML (i.e. with angle brackets around the element), then you will have to put the result through a serializer.

Legacy ID: #5757146 Legacy Poster: David Lee (daldei)

An alternative is maybe this XML is not what you really want. If you want to treat <value-of select="@"/> as text, perhaps it should be text in the XML itself intead of an XML Element This can be done with CData or &gt; &lt; entities. e.g. <report test=".">GAME &lt;value-of select="@"/&gt;</report> or <report test=".">GAME <![CDATA[<value-of select="@*"/>]]></foo> So perhaps the problem is not your code but he XML file itself. Depends on the author's intent.

Legacy ID: #5791024 Legacy Poster: Nuno Ferreira (nferr)

Solved the problem by using a xsl transformation. Thanks for the hints.

Legacy ID: #5819028 Legacy Poster: Nuno Ferreira (nferr)

Regarding the xpathCompiler.declareNamespace("", "http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron") , could you give me some hints of how to use because when i declare the variable of type XPathCompiler it seems there is nothing available to associate this variable to the current factory. Thanks.

Legacy ID: #5819237 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

I'm afraid I really don't understand your question. Suppose your source document is <ITEMS xmlns="http://www.example.com/items"> <ITEM>one</ITEM> <ITEM>two</ITEM> </ITEMS> Then to retrieve all the ITEM elements you might use this: XPathCompiler xpath = proc.newXPathCompiler(); xpath.declareNamespace("m", "http://www.example.com/items"); XPathSelector selector = xpath.compile("//m:ITEM").load(); or you might use this XPathCompiler xpath = proc.newXPathCompiler(); xpath.declareNamespace("", "http://www.example.com/items"); XPathSelector selector = xpath.compile("//ITEM").load(); The key thing is that because the ITEM elements in the source document are in a namespace, your XPath expression needs to use a QName that is bound to that namespace.