WSRF handling of QNames in XPath...

["Jeff Bohren" <jbohren@opennetwork.com>]

To see how WSRF is planning on handling QNames in XPath statements, see:

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrf/email/archives/200410/msg00085.html

 

Essentially the notion is that is possible to create “safe” XPath statements. For instance given the namespace mapping acme=http://acme.com, the XPath:

 

//acme:foo

 

Could be written as:

 

/descendant::*[local-name()='foo' and namespace-uri()='http:// acme.com/']

 

I freely admit that this exceeds my limited XPath knowledge.

 

This seems to me to be impractical as a solution, but that is what they are going with.

 

Jeff Bohren

Product Architect

OpenNetwork Technologies, Inc

 

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