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How to ignore namespace when selecting XML nodes with XPath

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How selecting XML data is possible with XPath explain?

XPath uses path expressions to select nodes or node-sets in an XML document. These path expressions look very much like the expressions you see when you work with a traditional computer file system. XPath expressions can be used in JavaScript, Java, XML Schema, PHP, Python, C and C++, and lots of other languages.

How can we avoid naming conflicts in XML with example?

Name conflicts in XML can easily be avoided using a name prefix. In the example above, there will be no conflict because the two <table> elements have different names.

Can you use XPath expression used to select the target node and its values?

XPath assertion uses XPath expression to select the target node and its values. It compares the result of an XPath expression to an expected value. XPath is an XML query language for selecting nodes from an XML. Step 1 − After clicking Add Assertion, select Assertion Category – Property Content.


This is FAQ (but I'm lazy to search duplicates today)

In XPath 1.0

//*[local-name()='name']

Selects any element with "name" as local-name.

In XPath 2.0 you can use:

//*:name

Use:

/*/*/*/*/*
        [local-name()='REPORT_DATA' 
       or 
         local-name()='REPORT_HEADER'
        ]