Select XML Node

aintvoguish · December 28th, 2007, 01:03 PM

I have to parse/select a namespace qualified node, where i don;t have idea of that namespace value and hence i need a generic XPATH expression or some thing similar to select the node.

will [*/local-name()='my node'] helps ? Tried with this got a different error.

Reg
aintvoguish

Martin Honnen · December 28th, 2007, 02:07 PM

Code:

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

selects all elements where the local name is 'foo'.
With XSLT/XPath 2.0 you can also use

Code:

*:foo

aintvoguish · December 28th, 2007, 03:45 PM

Martin,
Can you please explain the above expression.

does '*' represents the namespace of each context node?

Thanks.