Fix #22

package.json

@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@
                     "type": "array",
                     "default": ["-xquery", "$(script)", "-in", "$(input)", "-out", "$(input).output.xml"],
                     "description": "Arguments to be passed to the execution engine. '$(script)' and '$(input)' refer to the XQuery script and input XML file, respectively."
+                },
+                "xmlTools.ignoreDefaultNamespace": {
+                    "type": "boolean",
+                    "default": true,
+                    "description": "Ignores default xmlns attribute when evaluating XPath."
                 }
             }
         },

src/providers/XPath.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { XPathEvaluator } from '../services/XPathEvaluator';
 
 const CFG_SECTION: string = 'xmlTools';
 const CFG_PERSIST_QUERY: string = 'persistXPathQuery';
+const CFG_IGNORE_DEFAULT_XMLNS: string = 'ignoreDefaultNamespace';
 const MEM_QUERY_HISTORY: string = 'xpathQueryHistory';
 const MEM_QUERY_LAST: string = 'xPathQueryLast';
 const OUTPUT_CHANNEL: string = 'XPath Results';
@@ -54,9 +55,11 @@ export class XPathFeatureProvider {
         // showInputBox() will return undefined if the user dimissed the prompt
         if (query) {
             
+            let ignoreDefaultNamespace: boolean = vsc.workspace.getConfiguration(CFG_SECTION).get<boolean>(CFG_IGNORE_DEFAULT_XMLNS, true);
+            
             // run the query
             let xml: string = editor.document.getText();
-            let nodes: Node[] = XPathEvaluator.evaluate(query, xml);
+            let nodes: Node[] = XPathEvaluator.evaluate(query, xml, ignoreDefaultNamespace);
             
             // show the results to the user
             let outputChannel: vsc.OutputChannel = vsc.window.createOutputChannel(OUTPUT_CHANNEL);

src/services/XPathEvaluator.ts

@@ -5,10 +5,18 @@ import * as xpath from 'xpath';
 let DOMParser = require('xmldom').DOMParser;
 
 export class XPathEvaluator {
-    static evaluate(query: string, xml: string): Node[] {
+    static evaluate(query: string, xml: string, ignoreDefaultNamespace: boolean): Node[] {
+        if (ignoreDefaultNamespace) {
+            xml = xml.replace(/xmlns=".+"/g, (match: string) => {
+                return match.replace(/xmlns/g, 'xmlns:default');
+            });
+        }
+        
         let nodes: Node[] = new Array<Node>();
         
         let xdoc: Document = new DOMParser().parseFromString(xml, 'text/xml');
+        console.log(xdoc);
+        
         let resolver: xpath.XPathNSResolver = xpath.createNSResolver(xdoc);
         let expression: xpath.XPathExpression = xpath.createExpression(query, resolver);
         let result: xpath.XPathResult = expression.evaluate(xdoc, xpath.XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE);