Re: Difficulty with XPath and Namespaces using Eclipse with simple ANT build

Monday, March 26, 2012, 5:19:48 PM, Robert Johnson wrote:

[snip]
> <#list document["book/chapter[title='Ch1']/para"] as p>
>   <p>${p}
> </#list>
[snip]
> As you can see, the XPath just doesn't return anything (nor any
> error)

(I does return something: the empty list of matching nodes. Otherwise
it would stop with an error.)

> and yet all this is a direct copy out of the documentation on-line.

The @ is missing before "title" in that XPath expression, so there are
0 matches... I will fix this in the docs.

[snip]
> BUT, use this template
>
> <#ftl ns_prefixes={"e":"http://example.com/ebook"}>
> <#assign book=document["e:book"]>
[snip]
> [freemarker] Mar 26, 2012 4:15:35 PM
> freemarker.log.JDK14LoggerFactory$JDK14Logger error
> [freemarker] SEVERE: Template processing error: "Namespace prefix e is not registered."
> [freemarker] Namespace prefix e is not registered.
> [freemarker] The problematic instruction:
> [freemarker] ----------
[freemarker] ==>> assignment: book=document["e:book"] [on line 2, column 1 in books.ftl]

This one works for me. The problem in your case seems to be that
"document" wasn't wrapped by the freemarker.ext.dom, but with
freemarker.ext.xml, which is a legacy wrapper that's not documented in
the Manual. If you are using
http://freemarker.org/docs/api/freemarker/ext/ant/FreemarkerXmlTask.html
here, note the deprecation note that says not to use "document", but
".node". So either it should be <#assign book = .node["e:book"]>, or
you should start with <#assign document = .node>. That the Manual used
"document" is mere coincidence... it wasn't written with
FreemarkerXmlTask in mind, as the example itself doesn't use it
either.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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