[oXygen-user] Re: complex xpath

[David Sewell]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005  wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:23:02 +0200
> From: Sean Wheller <>
> Subject: [oXygen-user] complex xpath
>
> Using the following document as a study
> http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/doctable/doaproll.rdf
>
> My question is how to perform an XPath that will return all CVSRepository
> nodes. I try //CVSRepository and get "XPath returned no results".
>
> Any hints should be documented and added to Oxygen Help.

The problem is an XPath one and not an oXygen one. In your XML document, 
each "<Project>" element is assigned to a namespace without a prefix, 
making it impossible to find its subelements using XPath. Try adding this 
attribute to your root RDF element:

         xmlns:prj="http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/faux-doap"

then you can use the XPath expression

   //prj:CVSRepository

and find the elements.

DS

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