Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello all.

I have been scouring the forums and Google and can't seem to find anything similar to my problem.

I have the following XML with three namespaces. Two are defined in the root element and the third is defined in the the IdSession element. To make things even more confusing, the second and third namespaces have the same prefix, 'f'.

This is the xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<NamespaceTestCall xmlns="http://my.default/namespace"
xmlns:f="http://my.second/namespace">
...<f:Level1>
......<f:IdSession xmlns:f="http://my.third/namespace">12345</f:IdSession>
......<Language>ENG</Language>
...</f:Nivel1>
</NamespaceTestCall>

My question is, how do I get at the IdSession element? Don't I need to create an XPath object and assign it more than one NamespaceContext?

This is what I am doing:

Document xmlDocument = loadXML(xmlSource);

XPath xpathEvaluator = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();

xpathEvaluator.setNamespaceContext(new NamespaceContextProvider("a", "http://my.third/namespace"));

... xpathEvaluator.evaluate("//a:IdSession", ...);

This code works but it might not return the 'IdSession' I want, since by searching like this '//a:IdSession' it is looking in the whole document. If there were another 'IdSession' somewhere else in the document with the same URI, it would be returned. I want the 'IdSession' that lives inside of 'Level1'.

So what I would like to do is something like this:

... xpathEvaluator.evaluate("/*/Level1/a:IdSession", ...);

But this does NOT work because 'Level1' has its own namespace. So what it seems like I need to do is the following:

... xpathEvaluator.evaluate("/*/b:Level1/a:IdSession", ...);

Having already added the 'Level1' namespace to the XPath object, with the prefix 'b'. But unlike JDOM, there is no 'add' functionality, only 'set', meaning if you call set twice the second call overwrites the first.

Is there anyway to do this?

Many thanks!
Bob