Hi:

In Apache commons-jxpath we discuss a simpler way to relax the XPath 1.0
handling for default namespaces:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32360

Basically, the solution introduce a special handling flag for default
namespaces:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32360#c13

I will be glad if you can comment about the issue and how do you see this.

Many thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Antonio Gallardo.