[CAMEL-4799] Umbrella ticket for XPath improvements

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.10.0
• Component/s: camel-core, camel-spring
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Raúl Kripalani
• Reporter: Raúl Kripalani
• Created: 19/Dec/11 18:49
• Updated: 02/Jun/12 12:20
• Resolved: 02/Jun/12 12:20

Description

As agreed with Claus Ibsen over IRC, this ticket will group several XPath language improvements as sub-tasks. At least the following will be included:

• Balance up the XPath Java DSL with Spring DSL, namely to be able to specify Saxon as the XPathFactory from Spring DSL
• Crank up the logging for more verbosity when dealing with namespaces and during the evaluation process
• Improve namespace handling to make it more intelligent (e.g. if the XML doc has a default namespace and no other namespaces, and the XPath expression doesn't specify one, assume that the expression should be evaluated against the default namespace)
• Result QName definition to work with Saxon Object Model and XPath 2 constructs which are not embraced by JAXP (e.g. sequences), and possibly some type converters (still under evaluation)
• Balance up the Scala DSL if necessary

Sub-Tasks

• Balance up xpath XML element with Java DSL equivalent: Resolved
• Extra logging when evaluating XPath expressions to help address namespace issues: Resolved