How to ignore namespace when selecting XML nodes with XPath
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
xml-namespaces
How to query XML using namespaces in Java with XPath?
In the second example XML file the elements are bound to a namespace. Your XPath is attempting to address elements that are bound to the default “no namespace” namespace, so they don’t match. The preferred method is to register the namespace with a namespace-prefix. It makes your XPath much easier to develop, read, and maintain. … Read more
XPath select node with namespace
I’d probably be inclined to go with Bartek’s* namespace solution, but a general xpath solution is: //*[local-name()=’ProjectGuid’] **since Bartek’s answer has disappeared, I recommend Teun’s (which is actually more thorough)*
What’s a RDF triple?
I think the question needs to be split into two parts – what is a triple and what makes an “RDF triple” so special? Firstly, a triple is, as most of the other commenters here have already pointed out, a statement in “subject/predicate/object” form – i.e. a statement linking one object (subject) to another object(object) … Read more
Why is XmlNamespaceManager necessary?
The basic point (as pointed out by Kev, above), is that the namespace URI is the important part of the namespace, rather than the namespace prefix, the prefix is an “arbitrary convenience” As for why you need a namespace manager, rather than there being some magic that works it out using the document, I can … Read more
What are XML namespaces for?
They’re for allowing multiple markup languages to be combined, without having to worry about conflicts of element and attribute names. For example, look at any bit of XSLT code, and then think what would happen if you didn’t use namespaces and were trying to write an XSLT where the output has to contain “template”, “for-each”, … Read more
targetNamespace and xmlns without prefix, what is the difference?
targetNamespace is an XML Schema “artifact”; its purpose: to indicate what particular XML namespace the schema file describes. xmlns – because the XML Schema is an XML document, it is then possible to define a default XML namespace for the XML file itself (this is what xmlns attribute does); the implications are multiple: authoring, and … Read more
xmlns, xmlns:xsi, xsi:schemaLocation, and targetNamespace?
Namespace related attributes in XML and XML Schema (XSD) xmlns is part of the W3C Namespaces in XML Recommendation: The prefix xmlns is used only to declare namespace bindings and is by definition bound to the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/. In your example, it declares that http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 is the default namespace for the elements in your … Read more
What is an xs:NCName type and when should it be used?
@skyl practically provoked me to write this answer so please mind the redundancy. NCName stands for “non-colonized name”. NCName can be defined as an XML Schema regular expression [\i-[:]][\c-[:]]* …and what does that regex mean? \i and \c are multi-character escapes defined in XML Schema definition. http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dt-ccesN \i is the escape for the set of … Read more
What does elementFormDefault do in XSD?
ElementFormDefault has nothing to do with namespace of the types in the schema, it’s about the namespaces of the elements in XML documents which comply with the schema. Here’s the relevent section of the spec: Element Declaration Schema Component Property {target namespace} Representation If form is present and its ·actual value· is qualified, or if … Read more