*  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
     *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
     *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
     *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
     *
     *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
     *  @param expression A valid XPath string.