XML-file with prefix in Java importing

Question

Hello,
I have one XML-file with prefix "wf" like this:
   <wf:data>
           <wf:name>NAME</wf:name>
           <wf:description/>
           <wf:creation_time>0001-01-01T00:00:00</wf:creation_time>
           <wf:user wf:ref=""/>
           <wf:properties/>
   </wf:data>the Java-Code like this:
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          factory.setNamespaceAware(false);
          XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
          String expression = "./data/name/text()";
          InputSource inputSource = new InputSource("workflow.xml");
                String result = xpath.evaluate(expression, inputSource);the Java-Code works well, if the prefix does not exist, otherwise I could not get any result. Could somebody please help me?
Thank you
Sunny

Answer 1

I have defined the namespaceI didn't see that in your original post.
I notice that your XPath expression doesn't include the namespace prefixes and you don't tell it how to map the prefixes to the namespace URIs. I am not sure whether calling factory.setNamespaceAware(false) makes it unnecessary to do that. I wouldn't count on it.