I am using jasperreports and Jaxen to parse xml documents. I am trying to evaluate xpath (in fact Jasperreports does it) on this xml:

<myprefix:car xmlns:myprefix="http://cars/1.1" >
    <myprefix:owner>
    </myprefix:owner>
 </myprefix:car>

I get this exception: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Jaxen XPath selection failed. Expression: //myprefix:car/myprefix:owner

I used this expressions:

• //myprefix:car/myprefix:owner
• /myprefix:car/myprefix:owner
• //myprefix:car//myprefix:owner
• //*[local-name()='car']/[local-name()='owner']

and I get always exception that parse failed.

I want to make it parsable and I need two instructions:

• find all such nodes or
• find first such node

I have xml with namespaces but I would like to use a solution that uses local names, without namespaces but I would be also interested in testing solution with namespaces.