I need to process an XML DOM, preferably with JDOM, where I can do XPath search on nodes. I know the node names or paths, but I want to ignore namespaces completely because sometimes the document comes with namespaces, sometimes without, and I can't rely on specific values. Is that possible? How?
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A:
/ns:foo/ns:bar/@baz
becomes
/*[local-name() = 'foo']/*[local-name() = 'bar']/@baz
You get the point. Don't expect that to be lightning-fast either.
Tomalak
2010-04-09 12:52:41
I tried the solution from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/543049/default-xml-namespace-jdom-and-xpathIt is much simpler and works as long as the root element has any namespace declared. But if there is no namespace, it doesn't - so either I use the above, or I have a separate solution for no namespaces.
AdSR
2010-04-09 14:36:34
Tomalak
2010-04-09 15:25:34
A:
I know this question is a little old, but for those viewing this later, you can override a few JDOM default classes to effectively make it ignore namespaces as well. You can pass your own JDOMFactory implementation to the SAXBuilder that ignores all Namespace values passed into it.
Then override the SAXBuilder class and implement the createContentHandler method so that it returns a SAXHandler with a blank definition for the startPrefixMapping method.
I haven't used this in a production setting so caveat emptor, but I have verified that it does work on some quick and dirty XML stuff I've done.
jhulford
2010-05-18 19:42:08