Re: newbie XPATH newsgroup ?

I think the correct term is serialized  but really what I am trying to
understand is XPath with multiple namespaces

For example if you search for an  attribute called 'author' but with
multiple namespaces. Given

       xpath=   "/ns1:author[@id='x']/ns2:author[@id='y']

is it possible to declare the namespace references in the xpath?

It seems that  a serialized xpath format would make this a lot  easier to
read

     <ns1:author ns1:author="www.foo1"  xpath="@id='x'>
             <ns2:author ns2:author=www.foo2 xpath="@id='y'/>
      <ns1:author>

Any recommended reading for XPath+multiple namespaces?


"rvj" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> a) is there a XPath newsgroup
>
> b) very simply all I want to know is there is a mechanism
(exists/proposed)
> for switching between a compact XPath representation and a more verbose
XML
> structured representation ?
>
> where
>
>    /provider[@id=123]/library[@id=234]/detail[@id=345]/*
>
> can be alternatively represented something like
>
>        <provider xpath="[@id=123]" >
>              <library xpath="[@id=234]" >
>                     <detail xpath="[id=345]/*" />
>               </library>
>        </provider>
>
>