[oXygen-user] Oxygen Eclipse plugin XPath evaluator not handling default namespaces...

[John O'Shea]

Hi,    
    I've got an XML doc that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<EXAMPLE_COMMIT_NOTICE xmlns="http://example.com/services/b2b"
   xmlns:example="http://example.com/services/b2b">
   <Partner_ID>abcdef</Partner_ID>
   <File_Name>abcdef</File_Name>
   <Transmission_Date>abcdef</Transmission_Date>
   <Commit_Notice_Detail>
       <Order_Number>abcdef</Order_Number>
       <Partner_Web_Order_Number>abcdef</Partner_Web_Order_Number>
       <Line_Number>abcdef</Line_Number>
       <Product_ID>abcdef</Product_ID>
       <Quantity_Committed>abcdef</Quantity_Committed>
       <Committed_Ship_Date>abcdef</Committed_Ship_Date>
   </Commit_Notice_Detail>
</EXAMPLE_COMMIT_NOTICE>

When editing in the Oxygen XML, if I choose the XPath Expression 
evaluator and enter:

/example:EXAMPLE_COMMIT_NOTICE/example:Commit_Notice_Detail/example:Order_Number 


then I get an error dialog back from the oXygen plugin:

"Exception ro.sync.goto.do
Prefix must resolve to a namespace: example"

despite the fact that the example prefix is correctly bound to a namespace.

I've tried various tricks to get an XPath query that can find elements 
in this document but nothing will work.  I've dropping the proxy of the 
default namespace and trying
/:EXAMPLE_COMMIT_NOTICE/:Commit_Notice_Detail/:Order_Number but it gives 
the same erri (with nothing after the 'Prefix must resolve to a 
namespace: ' message.

Note, if I do something like:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<EXAMPLE_COMMIT_NOTICE xmlns="http://example.com/services/b2b"
   xmlns:example="http://example.com/services/b2b">
   <Partner_ID>abcdef</Partner_ID>
   <File_Name>abcdef</File_Name>
   <Transmission_Date>abcdef</Transmission_Date>
   <Commit_Notice_Detail xmlns="">
                         ^^^^^^^^
       <Order_Number>abcdef</Order_Number>
       <Partner_Web_Order_Number>abcdef</Partner_Web_Order_Number>
       <Line_Number>abcdef</Line_Number>
       <Product_ID>abcdef</Product_ID>
       <Quantity_Committed>abcdef</Quantity_Committed>
       <Committed_Ship_Date>abcdef</Committed_Ship_Date>
   </Commit_Notice_Detail>
</EXAMPLE_COMMIT_NOTICE>

and then use a query string of '//Commit_Notice_Detail' it correctly 
returns '/EXAMPLE_COMMIT_NOTICE[1]/Commit_Notice_Detail[1]'

However, that's of no use to me - all of the elements in the document 
must be from the default or a named namespace.

Note the posting on the Oxygen message board at 
http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21 suggests this approach 
(proxying the default namespace) should work.
Can you let me know what I've missed, or is this a know fault with the 
plugin (or Xalan)?????