XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com>]

Have you tried

Element.addNamespaceDeclaration("custom", 
"http://example.com/opensearchextensions/1.0/";);

Michael Kay
Saxonica


On 11/08/2010 07:49, Imran M Yousuf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing a little problem :).
> http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#OpenSearch_Query_element
> I am trying to implement a DOM serialization and deserialization api
> for this specification. A part of is to be able to write -
> <Query xmlns:custom="http://example.com/opensearchextensions/1.0/";
>          role="custom:example"
>          searchTerms="cat"
>          title="Sample search" />
> The problem is I can not add xmlns:* attributes as it rightly
> identifies it as NS and throws an exception. But if I do provide an
> URI for the role attribute that would behave wrongly as it will make
> 'role' under that NS with empty prefix. One way I am currently
> employing to get around it is to use another dummy attribute, such as
> custom:add="val" with the custom's NS, then it adds the xmlns
> automatically. But I would not want to do it always.
>
> Can you please suggest me how I could achieve just achieving the following?
> <Query xmlns:custom="http://example.com/opensearchextensions/1.0/";
>          role="custom:example"
>          searchTerms="cat"
>          title="Sample search" />
>
> Thank you,
>
>