Having issue while extracting version number from pom using xPath-CodePudding

I'm having issue extracting the version number from POM. Can someone help me with it ?

POM.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <artifactId>watcher</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <groupId>com.test.file</groupId>
    <name>file-watcher</name>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <parent>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <relativePath/>
        <version>2.6.1</version> 
    </parent>

</project>

XPATH Expression:

//project/version/text()

Error: This is returning no match found

CodePudding user response：

Your elements are in a default namespace. So try a namespace-agnostic XPath-1.0 expression like the following:

/*[local-name()='project']/*[local-name()='version']/text()

Its output is

0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

as desired.

CodePudding user response：

Your XPath here is correct, it should return 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
It can be simulated on XPath simulators like
So it's quite clear your problem is not with the XPath expression while with what you doing with it.