XPath query with default namespace in XML file
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Matlab introduced a MATLAB API for XML Processing (I believe in 2021a).
I am using this API with XPath expressions to extract data from XML files. However, this fails when the XML file has a default namespace registered.
For example with this XML file test.xml:
<books xmlns="http://www.contoso.com/books" xmlns:i="http://www.contoso.com/currency">
<book>
<title>Title</title>
<author>Author Name</author>
<i:price>5.50</i:price>
</book>
</books>
Using the following snippet:
import matlab.io.xml.dom.*
import matlab.io.xml.xpath.*
xmlFilePath = "path\to\test.xml";
xmlDom = parseFile(Parser, xmlFilePath);
xpathPrice = "//i:price";
xpathAuthor = "//author";
res = evaluate(Evaluator, xpathPrice, xmlDom)
works for xpathPrice but fails for xpathAuthor (in the sense that it returns an empty result instead of the author node from the example).
Browsing through the different options, I could not come up with a solution. I am working on Matlab 2021b.
I know that I could use getElementsByTagName but I do require the functionality provided by XPath to identify nodes.
Are there any hints on how I could get that working?
Thanks!
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Sakshay
2022-11-29
Hello Chris,
As per my understanding, you are trying to access elements of an XML file, using XPath. But it seems that the elements with a default namespace having no prefix are not being captured.
This problem here seems to be with how XPath works, rather than in the MATLAB API.
Elements without a prefix, can be accessed using the "local-name()" attribute. As an example, for your case, the query would look like:
xPathAuthor = '//*[local-name()="book"]';
res = evaluate(Evaluator, xPathAuthor, xmlDom);
For information, on the XPath Evaluator Package, you can refer to the following documentation:
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