Hi,

> <page>
>   <request xmlns="http://www.apache.org/coccon/requestgenerator/2.0"
>            target="/cocoon/test/request" source="">
>     <requestHeaders>
>   	<header name="accept">image/gif, image/jpeg, ..., */*</header> 
>   	<header name="accept-language">en-gb</header> 
>   	<header name="accept-encoding">gzip, deflate</header> 
>   	<header name="user-agent">Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 
> 6.0; Windows
> NT 5.0)</header> 
>   	<header name="host">localhost:8080</header> 
>   	<header name="connection">Keep-Alive</header> 
>     </requestHeaders>
>     <requestParameters /> 
>     <configurationParameters /> 
>   </request>
>   <foo target="bar"/>
> </page>
> 
> I what to access the target attribute of the request element. 
>  I have used:

  /page/x:request/@target

where the prefix x is bound to namespace URI http://www.apache.org/coccon/requestgenerator/2.0.
 
[snip]

> 1) Why is xmlns attribute causing this happening?

See <http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests>

  "--except that the default namespace declared with xmlns is not used:--"

Cheers,

Jarno - God Module: Illusion

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