%test:assertXPath help

"Harris, Bernard T. \(GSFC-5870\) via Exist-open" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:35:17 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.text.xml.exist
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No matter what I do, I cannot get a useful (more than "$result") %:assertXPath to work in this case

xquery version "3.1";

import module namespace inspect="http://exist-db.org/xquery/inspection";
import module namespace test="http://exist-db.org/xquery/xqsuite" 
at "resource:org/exist/xquery/lib/xqsuite/xqsuite.xql";

declare namespace xhtml = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";

declare
    %test:arg("error", "Bad Request")
    %test:arg("description", "Invalid ResourceID")
    %test:arg("extraHtml")
        %test:assertXPath("$result//*:html")
    (: 
        %test:assertXPath("$result//*:html/*:head[*:title = 'Bad Request']")
        %test:assertXPath("$result/xhtml:html/xhtml:body/xhtml:p[@class = 'ErrorMessage']")
    :)
function local:errorHtml(
    $error as xs:string,
    $description as xs:string,
    $extraHtml as node()?)
as node()
{
    let $result := 
        <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
            <head>
                <title>{$error}</title>
            </head>
            <body>
                <p class='ErrorMessage'><b>Message: </b>{$error}</p>
                <p class='ErrorDescription'><b>Description: </b>{$description}</p>
                {$extraHtml}
            </body>
        </html>
    return
        $result
};

let $f := local:errorHtml#3
return
    test:suite($f)


It always results in 

<testsuites>
    <testsuite package="http://www.w3.org/2005/xquery-local-functions" timestamp="2023-03-14T08:28:16.065-04:00" tests="1" failures="1" errors="0" pending="0" time="PT0.002S">
        <testcase name="errorHtml" class="local:errorHtml">
            <failure message="assertXPath failed." type="failure-error-code-1">$result//*:html</failure>
            <output>
                <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
                    <head>
                        <title>Bad Request</title>
                    </head>
                    <body>
                        <p class="ErrorMessage">
                            <b>Message: </b>Bad Request</p>
                        <p class="ErrorDescription">
                            <b>Description: </b>Invalid ResourceID</p>
                    </body>
                </html>
            </output>
        </testcase>
    </testsuite>
</testsuites>

Or

        <testcase name="errorHtml" class="spasexq:errorHtml">
            <error type="err:XPST0081" message="It is a static error if a QName used in an expression contains a namespace prefix that cannot be expanded into a namespace URI by using the statically known namespaces. Error while evaluating expression: $result//xhtml:html. No namespace defined for prefix xhtml:html"/>
        </testcase>

If I use the xhtml namespace in the assertXPath annotation.  I found someone report a similar problem on stackoverflow in 2016 but it is not clear to me how it was resolved.  This is on exist-db 6.2.0 and Java 11.  Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?  Thanks.

Bernie Harris