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