filtering nodes containiing qname valuies using xpath

[enrico sabbadin]

hi, while playing with the SAML specs I found that one must insert a node like this if the call succeded

<status xmlns:z=mynamspace" ...

<z:statuscode result="z:Sucess"/>

...

How do I set up an XPATH filter that veriffies if the call succeed ? .. I mean i cannot hardcode z:Success since another one could pass me out a doc like this

<x xmlns:k=mynamspace" ...

<k:statuscode result="k:Sucess"/>

...

The code I wrote is something like what you see below .. however I wonder if there is a way to make xpath aware of namepsace while evaluating elements and attributes text ..

I mean, what an XSd parser does when meets type="xsd:string" ?

string s = "<a xmlns:k='abcd' ><b k:aa='k:success'></b></a>";
System.Xml.XmlDocument doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument ();
doc.LoadXml (s);
XmlNamespaceManager ns = new XmlNamespaceManager (doc.NameTable );
ns.AddNamespace ("xx","abcd");
string dd = "//@xx:aa[.='" + doc.DocumentElement.GetPrefixOfNamespace("abcd") + ":success']";
XmlNode x = doc.SelectSingleNode (dd,ns);
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine ( x.InnerText );

suggestions are welcome
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[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

enrico sabbadin @ infinito wrote:

hi, while playing with the SAML specs I found that one must insert a
node like this if the call succeded

<status xmlns:z=mynamspace" ...

<z:statuscode result="z:Sucess"/>

How do I set up an XPATH filter that veriffies if the call succeed ? ..
I mean i cannot hardcode z:Success since another one could pass me out a
doc like this

<x xmlns:k=mynamspace" ...

<k:statuscode result="k:Sucess"/>

The code I wrote is something like what you see below .. however I
wonder if there is a way to make xpath aware of namepsace while
evaluating elements and attributes text ..

Yeah, but not in a strughtforward way. Something like:

//@result[
substring-after(., ':')='Sucess' and
name(../namespace::*[.='mynamspace'])=substring-before(., ':')
]

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