[XALANJ-1018] internally declared namespaces not resolved correctly by XPath processor

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: XPath
• Environment: Operating System: Other; Platform: Other
• Bugzilla Id: 9167
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Dunstan
• Created: 16/May/02 23:35
• Updated: 16/Feb/11 23:06
• Resolved: 02/Sep/04 21:18

Description

output below should explain

[adunsta:samples]$ cat foo.xml
<a:b xmlns:a="q">
<b:c xmlns:b="w">
<b:d>Foobar</b:d>
</b:c>
</a:b>
[adunsta:samples]$ java -
cp ../bin/xalan.jar:../bin/xalansamples.jar:../bin/xercesImpl.jar:. ApplyXPath
foo.xml '/a:b'
Loading classes, parsing foo.xml, and setting up serializer
Querying DOM using /a:b
<output>
<a:b xmlns:a="q">
<b:c xmlns:b="w">
<b:d>Foobar</b:d>
</b:c>
</a:b>
</output>
[adunsta:samples]$ java -
cp ../bin/xalan.jar:../bin/xalansamples.jar:../bin/xercesImpl.jar:. ApplyXPath
foo.xml '//b:c'
Loading classes, parsing foo.xml, and setting up serializer
Querying DOM using //b:c
Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Prefix
must resolve to a namespace: b
at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.error(XPathParser.java:602)
at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.mapNSTokens(Lexer.java:674)
at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.tokenize(Lexer.java:397)
at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.tokenize(Lexer.java:139)
at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.initXPath(XPathParser.java:143)
at org.apache.xpath.XPath.<init>(XPath.java:217)
at org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI.eval(XPathAPI.java:279)
at org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(XPathAPI.java:172)
at org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(XPathAPI.java:152)
at ApplyXPath.doMain(ApplyXPath.java:128)
at ApplyXPath.main(ApplyXPath.java:183)
[adunsta:samples]$ pwd
/home/adunsta/xalan-j_2_3_1/samples
[adunsta:samples]$