I have to parse an XML document that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<m:OASISReport xmlns:m="http://oasissta.caiso.com/mrtu-oasis/xsd/OASISReport.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://oasissta.caiso.com/mrtu-oasis/xsd/OASISReport.xsd http://oasissta.caiso.com/mrtu-oasis/xsd/OASISReport.xsd">
<m:MessagePayload>
<m:RTO>
<m:name>CAISO</m:name>
<m:REPORT_ITEM>
<m:REPORT_HEADER>
<m:SYSTEM>OASIS</m:SYSTEM>
<m:TZ>PPT</m:TZ>
<m:REPORT>AS_RESULTS</m:REPORT>
<m:MKT_TYPE>HASP</m:MKT_TYPE>
<m:UOM>MW</m:UOM>
<m:INTERVAL>ENDING</m:INTERVAL>
<m:SEC_PER_INTERVAL>3600</m:SEC_PER_INTERVAL>
</m:REPORT_HEADER>
<m:REPORT_DATA>
<m:DATA_ITEM>NS_PROC_MW</m:DATA_ITEM>
<m:RESOURCE_NAME>AS_SP26_EXP</m:RESOURCE_NAME>
<m:OPR_DATE>2010-11-17</m:OPR_DATE>
<m:INTERVAL_NUM>1</m:INTERVAL_NUM>
<m:VALUE>0</m:VALUE>
</m:REPORT_DATA>
The problem is that the namespace "http://oasissta.caiso.com/mrtu-oasis/xsd/OASISReport.xsd" can sometimes be different. I want to ignore it completely and just get my data from tag MessagePayload downstream.
The code I am using so far is:
String[] namespaces = new String[1];
String[] namespaceAliases = new String[1];
namespaceAliases[0] = "ns0";
namespaces[0] = "http://oasissta.caiso.com/mrtu-oasis/xsd/OASISReport.xsd";
File inputFile = new File(inputFileName);
Map namespaceURIs = new HashMap();
// This query will return all of the ASR records.
String xPathExpression = "/ns0:OASISReport
/ns0:MessagePayload
/ns0:RTO
/ns0:REPORT_ITEM
/ns0:REPORT_DATA";
xPathExpression += "|/ns0:OASISReport
/ns0:MessagePayload
/ns0:RTO
/ns0:REPORT_ITEM
/ns0:REPORT_HEADER";
// Load up the raw XML file. The parameters ignore whitespace and other
// nonsense,
// reduces DOM tree size.
SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
reader.setStripWhitespaceText(true);
reader.setMergeAdjacentText(true);
Document inputDocument = reader.read(inputFile);
// Relate the aliases with the namespaces
if (namespaceAliases != null && namespaces != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i < namespaceAliases.length; i++)
{
namespaceURIs.put(namespaceAliases[i], namespaces[i]);
}
}
// Cache the expression using the supplied namespaces.
XPath xPath = DocumentHelper.createXPath(xPathExpression);
xPath.setNamespaceURIs(namespaceURIs);
List asResultsNodes = xPath.selectNodes(inputDocument.getRootElement());
It works fine if the namespace never changes but that is obviously not the case. What do I need to do to make it ignore the namespace? Or if I know the set of all possible namespace values, how can I pass them all to the XPath instance?
This is FAQ (but I'm lazy to search duplicates today)
In XPath 1.0
//*[local-name()='name']
Selects any element with "name" as local-name.
In XPath 2.0 you can use:
//*:name