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Anyone worked with `N/xml` and an XML doc that has namespaces in it? in particular trying to figure out the XPath for a SOAP response

welcome to why i hate namespace with soap

easiest way i know of is to ignore namespace by using
```local-name()```


netsuite also has a special name for the default namespace, you can probably find what it is by searching netsuite user group for it

turns out that you cant find it there anymore,

<https://system.netsuite.com/app/common/scripting/nlapihandler.nl?downloadapi=T>
```nodes in default namespace can be referenced using "nlapi" as the prefix```

Your `local-name()` suggestion worked great

Not ideal, of course, but I don't see another way to specify namespaces.

you can use name() if you think your webservice wont change the name of the namespace prefix on you

if you want extreme precision, i think you can use namespace-uri() to specify the uri of the namespace