Remove prefix when building a Document

[Alex Anderson]

I have a tool which uses xpath to check if certain elements exists in documents. The problem i have is that XPathAPI which i use does not understand namespaces and prefix and therefore fails to find nodes with prefix.

So.. how do i remove prefix when building a Document?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope   
  xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"   
  xmlns:foob="http://schemas.company.com/foo/bar">
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <foob:Login>
            <foob:user>username</foob:user>
            <foob :-P	 ass>password</foob :-P	 ass>
        </foob:Login>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

at the moment i build a Document with:

DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(
        new ByteArrayInputStream(stringofxml.getBytes()));

[ December 13, 2005: Message edited by: Alex Anderson ]

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Moving to our XML forum.

[Rajagopal Manohar]

Originally posted by Alex Anderson:
I have a tool which uses xpath to check if certain elements exists in documents. The problem i have is that XPathAPI which i use does not understand namespaces and prefix and therefore fails to find nodes with prefix.

So.. how do i remove prefix when building a Document?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope   
  xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"   
  xmlns:foob="http://schemas.company.com/foo/bar">
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <foob:Login>
            <foob:user>username</foob:user>
            <foob  :-P	  ass>password</foob  :-P	  ass>
        </foob:Login>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

at the moment i build a Document with:

DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(
        new ByteArrayInputStream(stringofxml.getBytes()));

[ December 13, 2005: Message edited by: Alex Anderson ]

This thread may answer your question XPath and namespaces. look how factory.setNameSpaceAware(false) changes the behaviour