you can set the namespace prefixes at route level and just use the prefix anywhere in that route.
off the top of my head I don't know the java DSL for it, but in xml you do: <route id="myroute" xmlns:nsprefix="http://mydomain.com";> ... <setHeader headerName="my_header"> <xpath resultType="java.lang.String">/nsprefix:book/nsprefix:chapter</xpath> </setHeader> ... </route> and of course you can specify multiple namespaces -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/How-can-I-avoid-setting-namespace-prefixes-in-xpath-expressions-in-camel-tp5742461p5742467.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
