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Asked: May 10, 20262026-05-10T16:10:47+00:00 2026-05-10T16:10:47+00:00

I want to select the topmost element in a document that has a given

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I want to select the topmost element in a document that has a given namespace (prefix).

More specifically: I have XML documents that either start with /html/body (in the XHTML namespace) or with one of several elements in a particular namespace. I effectively want to strip out /html/body and just return the body contents OR the entire root namespaced element.

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  1. 2026-05-10T16:10:47+00:00Added an answer on May 10, 2026 at 4:10 pm

    In XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 you can test against the namespace prefix using the in-scope-prefixes() function in a predicate. e.g.

    //*[in-scope-prefixes(.)='html'] 

    If you cant use v2, in XPath 1.0 you can use the namespace-uri() function to test against the namespace itself. e.g.

    //*[namespace-uri()='http://www.w3c.org/1999/xhtml'] 
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