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XQuery/Extracting data from XHTML files
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Motivation
To perform an XQuery on XHTML files that use the XHTML namespace.
Method
We will start our XQuery by adding the default namespace for XHTML.
declare default element namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
Sample Source Code
Assume that you have an well-formed XHTML file in the file /db/text/index.xhtml
xquery version "1.0";
declare default element namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
declare option exist:serialize "method=html media-type=text/html indent=yes";
let $doc := doc('/db/test/index.xhtml')
let $body := $doc/html/body/*
return
<html>
<head>
<title>Replace Head</title>
</head>
<body>
{$body}
</body>
</html>