The XPath specification assumes that the XML being processed has a
prefix defined for every namespace present in the document. If you
are processing XML that was parsed from text, this will be true by
construction.
If you have programmatically created XML with namespaces but not
defined prefixes, some XPath behavior may be confusing:
- The
name method will not include a prefix, even if the
element or attribute has a namespace.
- The
namespace axis will not include namespaces without
prefixes.
| nodeset |
Convenience constructor for a nodeset
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