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Asked: 2026-05-25T20:52:18+00:00

I am trying to use figure out how xpath is working in FireFox, but

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I am trying to use figure out how xpath is working in FireFox, but I am unable to resolve a simple namespace prefix. The lookupNamespaceURI keeps on returning null.

I was unable to find any working examples on the net, so I am wondering if I am using this function correctly. Any insight would be very helpful.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events">
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            var testResolver = function()
            {
                var resolver = document.createNSResolver(document.documentElement);
                alert(resolver.lookupNamespaceURI('ev'));
            }

        </script>
    </head>

    <body onload="testResolver()">
    </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Make sure you serve the document with an XML or XHTML MIME type e.g. Content-Type: application/xml or Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml (example at http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2011091101.xhtml). If you serve as text/html then I don’t think namespace resolution will work.

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