Test XPath expressions with namespaces in Chrome
as taken from developer.mozilla's Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript
Implementing a User Defined Namespace Resolver
function nsResolver(prefix) { var ns = { 'xhtml' : 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'mathml': 'http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML' }; return ns[prefix] || null;}
If you searched for an element "description" anywhere inside the XML document, you could use the local-name() function. Example:
$x("//*[local-name()='description']")Inspired by this answer on SO.