Xpath Issue

[sravankumar sindam]

Hello all,

I am Sravan kumar, while developing the virtual service using RRpairs, when I take request as xpath i,e; /:Request/:body/:bodyAsString/text() I am getting below error.

please find the attachment and help me out 

Invalid XPath defined in XML XPath filter: /:Request/:body/:bodyAsString/text()
org.apache.xpath.domapi.XPathStylesheetDOM3Exception: Prefix must resolve to a namespace: 
  at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.errorForDOM3(XPathParser.java:655)
  at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.mapNSTokens(Lexer.java:647)
  at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.tokenize(Lexer.java:274)
  at org.apache.xpath.compiler.Lexer.tokenize(Lexer.java:98)
  at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.initXPath(XPathParser.java:112)
  at org.apache.xpath.XPath.<init>(XPath.java:178)
  at org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI.eval(XPathAPI.java:277)
  at com.itko.lisa.xml.XMLXPathUtils.executeXPath(XMLXPathUtils.java:109)
  at com.itko.lisa.xml.FilterXMLXPath.ossXPath(FilterXMLXPath.java:239)
  at com.itko.lisa.xml.FilterXMLXPath.subPostFilter(FilterXMLXPath.java:129)
  at com.itko.lisa.test.FilterBaseImpl.subFilter(FilterBaseImpl.java:148)
  at com.itko.lisa.test.FilterBaseImpl.postFilter(FilterBaseImpl.java:122)
  at com.itko.lisa.test.TestNode.doFilters(TestNode.java:1572)
  at com.itko.lisa.test.TestNode.doPostFilters(TestNode.java:1521)
  at com.itko.lisa.test.TestNode.executeNode(TestNode.java:1008)
  at com.itko.lisa.test.TestCase.execute(TestCase.java:1297)
  at com.itko.lisa.test.TestCase.execute(TestCase.java:1198)
  at com.itko.lisa.test.TestCase.executeNextNode(TestCase.java:1183)
  at com.itko.lisa.editor.WalkThruPanel.prepAndExecNode(WalkThruPanel.java:1122)
  at com.itko.lisa.editor.WalkThruPanel.access$900(WalkThruPanel.java:72)
  at com.itko.lisa.editor.WalkThruPanel$10.doCallback(WalkThruPanel.java:1021)
  at com.itko.util.swing.panels.ProcessingDialog$2.run(ProcessingDialog.java:195)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)

thanks in Advance

Sravan Kumar. 

[Sankar Natarajan]

Hi Sravan

         Thanks for reaching out to the community.

Root Cause:

The XPath expression /:Request/:body/:bodyAsString/text() is using namespace prefixes (:Request, :body, :bodyAsString) but these prefixes are not defined or mapped to namespaces.

In XML, when you use a colon (:) in an XPath expression, it indicates a namespace prefix. The system expects these prefixes to be properly declared and mapped to actual namespace URIs.

Solution:

Replace the namespace-prefixed XPath with local names:

For Eg: //Request//body//bodyAsString/text()

or

/Request/body/bodyAsString/text()

Please try and let me know if this solves the reported issue.

regards

Sankar