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Glenn Jones
Glenn Jones

Reputation: 11

XPath to get namespace of root node

Given the following xml snippets:

<ns2:Invoice xmlns="http://defaultnamespace.com" xmlns:ns2="http://namespace2.com"
  xmlns:ns3="http://namespace3.com">
.........
</ns2:Invoice>

and:

<ns3:Invoice xmlns="http://defaultnamespace.com" xmlns:ns2="http://namespace2.com"
  xmlns:ns3="http://namespace3.com">
.........
</ns3:Invoice>

Can xpath be used to get the namespace associated with the root (<Invoice>) element?

Expected results would be as follows: In the first example, the root is prefixed "ns2" so I would expect "http://namespace2.com" In the second example, the root is prefixed "ns3" so I would expect "http://namespace3.com"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1180

Answers (1)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167781

You can use namespace-uri(/*), see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#function-namespace-uri.

Upvotes: 5

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