• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• To: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:32:59 +0100

* Michael Kay wrote:
>Another candidate that meets this requirement is to use XQuery syntax
>
>declare namespace p1="http://p1.uri";
>declare namespace p2="http://p2.uri";
>declare namespace p="http://p.uri";
>declare default element namespace"xxx";
>/p1:a[1]/p2:b[1]/p:c[1]
>
>but that seems rather verbose in the contexts where XPath is commonly used.

Well, if you go there, you could just use

  /*[local-name() = 'a' and namespace-uri() = 'http://p1.uri'][1]/
   *[local-name() = 'b' and namespace-uri() = 'http://p2.uri'][1]/
   *[local-name() = 'c' and namespace-uri() = 'http://p.uri'][1]
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• References:
  • RE: the Canonical path of a node
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • RE: the Canonical path of a node
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>