[jdom-interest] Re: Very basic question about namespaces.

[Bart Read]

Hi All,


Just a quick query about namespaces.  Can't seem to find what I'm looking
for in any of my books or on the web but somebody here is bound to know.

We're using JDOM b8 in a messaging application that is used to transfer data
between various organisations.  I have an element like this:

<spoxml:entity name="aaa">
     <spoxml:parameter>
      <spoxml:name>bbb</spoxml:name>
      <spoxml:value>ccc</spoxml:value>
     </spoxml:parameter>
    ...
    ...
</spoxml:entity>

I want to extract the value of the 'name' attribute from the 'spoxml:entity'
element, so do I use

public java.lang.String getAttributeValue(java.lang.String name)

or

public java.lang.String getAttributeValue(java.lang.String name,
                                          Namespace ns)

to do it?

Is the attribute included within the 'spoxml' namespace because its parent
element is within this namespace, or is it in the default namespace (i.e.
would I need to call it 'spoxml:name' for it to be in the 'spoxml'
namespace)?

Any thoughts much appreciated.

Thanks,
Bart




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