[XOM-interest] Why is XOM adding xmlns="" to elements?
Jean Pierre Malrieu
jp.malrieu at free.fr
Mon Jun 11 07:43:53 EDT 2007
Thank you Michael.
So if the namespace of the element is the same as the namespace of
it's parent, then no namespace declaration is added to the generated
xml.
Good.
JPM
Le 10 juin 07 à 23:20, Michael Kay a écrit :
> If you want the element responseDeclaration to be in the namespace
> http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1, then you must put it in that
> namespace. It won't go in that namespace simply because that's the
> namespace
> of its parent. The xmlns="" is being added because
> responseDeclaration, the
> way you created it, is in no namespace.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xom-interest-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>> [mailto:xom-interest-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
>> Jean Pierre Malrieu
>> Sent: 10 June 2007 21:52
>> To: xom-interest at lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: [XOM-interest] Why is XOM adding xmlns="" to elements?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you will discover very soon, I know very little about XML
>> and XML schemas...
>> I want to use XOM to generate xml documents, because XOM
>> seems to be easier to understand than other APIs.
>>
>> My documents must look like this:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <assessmentItem xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1"
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1
>> imsqti_v2p1.xsd"
>> title = "title">
>> <responseDeclaration>
>> blabla
>> </responseDeclaration>
>> </assessmentItem>
>>
>> Therefore I have tried to write the following java code:
>>
>> Element root = new Element("assessmentItem");
>> root.setNamespaceURI("http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1");
>> root.addNamespaceDeclaration("xsi","http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>> instance");
>> root.addAttribute(new Attribute("xsi:schemaLocation",
>> "http:// www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance",
>> "http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/
>> imsqti_v2p1 imsqti_v2p1.xsd"));
>> root.addAttribute(new Attribute("title,"title")); Element rp
>> = new Element("responseDeclaration");
>>
>> but this leads to an output like:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <assessmentItem
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>> title = "title"
>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1
>> imsqti_v2p1.xsd"
>> xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p1">
>> <responseDeclaration xlmns="">
>> blabla
>> </responseDeclaration>
>> </assessmentItem>
>>
>> which is not valid.
>> How do I get rid of the xmlns="" in the responseDeclaration element?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> JPM
>>
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