Re: DomXPath and default XML namespaces

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Dan Phiffer wrote: > I guess what I would expect to work is to allow for blank values as the > first argument to registerNamespace, representing the default namespace, > but that causes the queries to always return no matches. Is there > something I'm missing with this? This is an XPath FAQ. Without a ns prefix, XPath doesn't choose elements living in the default ns, but ones living in no namespace. Otherwise, you have problems with: <root> <foo/> <foo xmlns="bar"/> </root> What would /root/foo be, the first, the second, both? And if this example is resolvable, what happens to: <root> <foo> <qxx/> </foo> <foo xmlns="bar"> <qxx/> </foo> </root> And /root/foo/qxx? Do you select qxx in the default ns? Or not? -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com | http://www.trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's "upgrading to php 5" and "php cookbook" avoid the holiday rush, buy your copies today!