The following XPath expression selects the element no matter where it appears in the XML document: //*[placetype] //*[rpid:placetype] http://www.schemavalid.com/faq/xml-schema.html http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0108.html GML http://www.gmlcentral.com/ Import XML http://www.posc.org/ebiz/Guidelines/ImportingModules.html http://www.xfront.com/VariableContentContainers.html http://www.xfront.com/ZeroOneOrManyNamespaces.html http://www.jdrosen.net/papers/draft-ietf-simple-presence-data-model-02.txt RELAX NG http://www.relaxng.org/ http://www.relaxng.org/tutorial-20011203.html https://www.sipfoundry.org/cgi-bin/user_manage https://scm.sipfoundry.org/rep/ietf-drafts/simple/schemas/ http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv http://tools.decisionsoft.com/schemaValidate.html http://apps.gotdotnet.com/xmltools/xsdvalidator/ --- ---- dejeuner http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2004/10/27/extend.html