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xpathFind method is not working as expected. #26
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Hi Team,
I upgraded java-xmlbuilder library from v0.4 to 0.6 or 1.2 and I start seeing failures related to "XPathExpressionException", Please see below the complete error message:
javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException: XPath expressi on "TABLE_INFO/field[tag='aggregate-count']" does not resolve to an Element in context [aggregate-information: null]: null
at com.jamesmurty.utils.BaseXMLBuilder.xpathFindImpl(BaseXMLBuilder.java:505)
at com.jamesmurty.utils.XMLBuilder.xpathFind(XMLBuilder.java:372)
at com.jamesmurty.utils.XMLBuilder.xpathFind(XMLBuilder.java:378)
If I revert back to 0.4 it starts working, could someone please help me with this?
Regards,
Arjun
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jmurty commentedon Sep 1, 2024
Hi @arjunlodhe I expect the problem you're experiencing is due to the improved namespace support that was added in version 0.5:
Since versions after 0.4 are aware of namespaces and their prefix names, you must either:
xpathFind("//my-ns-prefix:TABLE_INFO")) or if you only have a single default namespace you can leave out its name (e.g.xpathFind("//:TABLE_INFO"))isNamespaceAwareoptional param, e.g.XMLBuilder.parse(xmlFile, false, false)(withenableExternalEntitiesandisNamespaceAwareboolean flags)See this section of the unit tests for examples of how to handle namespaces in XPath queries:
https://github.com/jmurty/java-xmlbuilder/blob/master/src/test/java/com/jamesmurty/utils/BaseXMLBuilderTests.java#L403-L485