[xpathtester is steadfastly refusing to be helpful since it does
not highlight selected nodes based on attributes or namespaces.]
from tidwell's book, if i have an excerpt from an XML file:
<auth:author xmlns:auth=...>
<last-name>...
<first-name>...
<nationality>...
<year-of-birth>...
<year-of-death>...
</auth:author>
if i want to select all nodes in a given namespace ("auth"), it
appears i can use:
//namespace::auth
and while xpathtester refuses to highlight the matches, it does at least
tell me there were 6 of them. i'm assuming that these matches are the
auth:author element itself, and the 5 children, right?
so what is the XPath expression to match, say, the <last-name> elements
within this namespace?
i've tried a number of variations, and nothing has successfully matched.
i'm open to suggestions. i've used predicates involving local-name() and
all kinds of things.
rday
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