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Posted to user@velocity.apache.org by "Fitzpatrick, Niamh (CE)" <ce...@bearingpoint.com> on 2004/04/28 16:19:22 UTC

Accessing Namespace elements in Velocity

Hi there,
 I'm new to Velocity and Anakia and am trying to access elements in an xml input file that are prefixed by namespaces, but for some reason velocity can't seem to find them.

my input xml is of the form:
<metadata>
  <description>A description</description>
  <ns:Author xmlns:ns="http://blah.blah.blah/ns">John D</ns:Author>
<metadata>

my vsl file tries the following
	<td>$xpath.applyTo("MetaData/Publishdescription", $root) </td>
	<td>$xpath.applyTo("MetaData/ns:Author", $root)  </td>

The first line works perfectly, the second doesn't. I've added the namespace definition to the top of my vsl file as well <html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns="http://blah.blah.blah/ns> but that makes no difference:
Is there something I need to know about accesssing namespaced-elements in vsl files ?
Any help greatly appreciated,
Niamh



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