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Bubba wrote:

> <ItemInformation xmlns="http://tempuri.org/ItemInfo.xsd">
> <ItemDetails>
> <Title>This is the item title</Title>
> <State>This is the item state</State>
> <ItemCost ... />
> <ItemCost ... />
> <ReOrder>
> <MinLevel>25000</MinLevel>
> <MaxLevel ... />
> </ReOrder>
> </ItemDetails>
> </ItemInformation>
>
> The ItemInfo.xsd file does not exist. But how do I extract the Title
> element using XPath from this file? I've tried all manner of syntax but
> never get any results, can anyone help here please.

With the namespace declaration (xmlns="http://tempuri.org/ItemInfo.xsd")
in the XML document the ItemInformation element and its descendants are
in the namespace http://tempuri.org/ItemInfo.xsd. For XPath 1.0 to
select elements in a namespace you need to bind a prefix to the
namespace URI and use that prefix in the XPath expression to qualify
element names e.g.
/pf:ItemInformation/pf:ItemDetails/pf:Title
where the prefix pf is bound to the namespace URI
http://tempuri.org/ItemInfo.xsd.
How you bind a prefix to a namespace URI depends on the XPath API or
XPath host language (e.g. XSLT) you use. See
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/...34022/fid/1753 for
some examples.

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Martin Honnen
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