selecting Signature tag of whichever namespace?

[Lionel PASQUIER <lp...@omnikles.com>]

Hi there,

Newbie, I would like to select any tag Signature or *:Signature.
That is, selecting any Signature tag, whichever namespace the tag depends from.

How should I do this?

I had a few idea such as:
NodeList signatureElems = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(doc,"//Signature");
if(signatureElems.getLength() < 1)
	signatureElems = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(doc,"//*:Signature"); //I guess this will not do, don't you think?

or like this:
getElementsByTagName("Signature"); //will this work?

Is there a way to create a context Element matching ANY namespace?
something like:
signatureElems = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(doc,"//Signature", matchingAnyNamespaceContext);

Thank you by adavance, and my apologies if the question is irrelevant.

Lionel

Re: selecting Signature tag of whichever namespace?

[Caroline Foster <ca...@runbox.com>]

Lionel,

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I think you will always be wanting only 
Signature elements from the XML Signature namespace in a real application.

What I think you want to do is to be able to select Signature elements with 
any prefix.

The namespace is defined by the W3C and is 
http://www.w3.org/2000/07/xmldsig#, all signature prefixes (e.g. ds, dsig) 
should be defined to map to this namespace.

I suggest you set up a sample file containing a number of signatures 
declared with different prefixes but all mapped to the XML Signature 
namespace and then try out your ideas below and see what you get back.

Sorry I couldn't be more help,

Caroline.

On Fri, 30 May 2003 16:04:04 +0200, Lionel PASQUIER 
<lp...@omnikles.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Newbie, I would like to select any tag Signature or *:Signature.
> That is, selecting any Signature tag, whichever namespace the tag depends 
> from.
>
> How should I do this?
>
> I had a few idea such as:
> NodeList signatureElems = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(doc,"//Signature");
> if(signatureElems.getLength() < 1)
> 	signatureElems = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(doc,"//*:Signature"); //I guess 
> this will not do, don't you think?
>
> or like this:
> getElementsByTagName("Signature"); //will this work?
>
> Is there a way to create a context Element matching ANY namespace?
> something like:
> signatureElems = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(doc,"//Signature", 
> matchingAnyNamespaceContext);
>
> Thank you by adavance, and my apologies if the question is irrelevant.
>
> Lionel
>
>