[jira] Resolved: (JXPATH-61) [jxpath] Default Namespace not handled correctly

["Matt Benson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JXPATH-61?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Matt Benson resolved JXPATH-61.
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       Resolution: Won't Fix
    Fix Version/s:     (was: 1.3)

Final result:  reverting related changes per majority consensus on this thread with strong influence from ERH as a recognized expert in the XML field.  See http://marc.info/?l=jakarta-commons-dev&m=117193684907951&w=2

> [jxpath] Default Namespace not handled correctly
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JXPATH-61
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JXPATH-61
>             Project: Commons JXPath
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.2 Final
>         Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: All
>            Reporter: Richard Unger
>            Priority: Minor
>
> JXPath 1.2 does not handle the default namespace correctly. There is no way to
> set the default namespace on a context, so xpath expressions with unprefixed
> node-selections do not match the default namespace.
> Eg:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <test xmlns="http://test">
>   <child-element />
> </test>
> This is valid xml, with default namespace 'http://test'
> If the following xpath expression is used: '/test/childelement', it will not
> match the child-element element in this xml file.
> There appears to be no way to use the function JXPathContext.registerNamespace()
> to associate a default namespace with the context.
> The programmer is forced to introduce a namespace prefix for JXPath, the xpath
> expression 'foo:test/foo:child-element' will correctly match the element if 
> JXPathContext.registerNamespace("foo","http://test") is called first.
> This is, IMHO, a bug.

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