SonarXml custom rule not working

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I have created one templated rule for XML language to check if some tag values satisfy the naming convention and through code smell if it doesn’t satisfy. I followed: https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/DEV/Adding+Coding+Rules+using+XPath , to create the rule. But seems like this rule is not getting executed.

The newly created templated rule looks like:

Check if NJR project component name starts with get

Parameters

filePattern The files to be validated using Ant-style matching patterns
expression The XPath query
Default Value //ELEMENT[./S_TAG/NAME/@tokenValue='types1:Name' and ./CONTENT[starts-with(@tokenValue, 'get')] ]
message The issue message
Default Value This xml doesn’t start with get

My XML structure:

<aetgt:getResponse xmlns:aetgt="http://schemas.active-endpoints.com/appmodules/repository/2010/10/avrepository.xsd"
                   xmlns:types1="http://schemas.active-endpoints.com/appmodules/repository/2010/10/avrepository.xsd">
   <<types1:Item>>
      <<types1:EntryId>>5x8iaaabbeJOSM8-gt-1226268-2019-05-17T22:06:46.907Z::pd.xml</types1:EntryId>
      <<types1:Name>>getSess-RunJob_PF</types1:Name>
   </types1:Item>
</aetgt:getResponse>

xpath query that i am using:

//ELEMENT[./S_TAG/NAME/@tokenValue='types1:Name' and ./CONTENT[starts-with(@tokenValue, 'get')] ]

In sslr-xml-toolkit i am able to select the element in AST with the above query. But in sonarqube this plugin doesn’t seems to work.

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The documentation page you mention doesn’t list an SSLR toolkit for XML.
It’s easier than that: you can use an ordinary XPath expression.
In your case, you should try something like:

//*[local-name()='Name'][starts-with(., 'get')]