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I have the following XML:
<List xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/"> <Fields> <Field> </Field> </Fields> </List> This is a slimmed down version of XML being returned from a SharePoint web service. I also have the following xPath:
/List/Fields/Field When I remove the xmlns from my XML the xPath works fine. When it's in there my xPath finds nothing. Is there something I should be doing differently with my xPath? Modifying the XML is not an option.
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XPath queries are aware of namespaces in an XML document and can use namespace prefixes to qualify element and attribute names. Qualifying element and attribute names with a namespace prefix limits the nodes returned by an XPath query to only those nodes that belong to a specific namespace.
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.
You can change the default namespace within a particular element by adding an xmlns attribute to the element. Example 4-4 is an XML document that initially sets the default namespace to http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml for all the XHTML elements.
I also have the following xPath:
/List/Fields/FieldWhen I remove the xmlns from my XML the xPath works fine. When it's in there my xPath finds nothing
If you cannot register a namespace binding and cannot use (assuming the registered prefix is "x"):
/x:List/x:Fields/x:Field then there is another way:
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