[jdom-interest] namespace declaration is not appearing

[Curtis Fornadley]

Hi

Short version:

addNamespaceDeclaration() does not generate the declaration in the XML 
when called a second time on the same namespace but on a child structure

Long Version:


I am using JDOM beta 8 to generate OAI 2.0 documents

I have this to genrate the root part

Namespace xmlns = Namespace.getNamespace("http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/");
Element root = new Element("OAI-PMH",xmlns);
jdocGetRecord = new Document(root);

 Namespace xsi = Namespace.getNamespace("xsi", 
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
    root.addNamespaceDeclaration(xsi);

Attribute attSchema = new Attribute("schemaLocation",
                          "http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ " +
                          "http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd",
                           xsi);
root.setAttribute(attSchema);


Which generates:
<OAI-PMH
 xmlns="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/" 
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ 
 http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd">

etc.


BUT this code

Namespace oai_dc = 
Namespace.getNamespace("oai_dc","http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/");
Namespace dc = 
Namespace.getNamespace("dc","http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/");
// access to xsi namespace from above


Element dcElement = new Element("dc",oai_dc);
dcElement.addNamespaceDeclaration(dc);
dcElement.addNamespaceDeclaration(xsi); // this does not print out???

Attribute attDcSchema = new Attribute("schemaLocation",                 
"http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ " +                        
"http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd",
                               xsi);
dcElement.setAttribute(attDcSchema);


Generates:

<oai_dc:dc 
xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" 
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">


Thus, dcElement.addNamespaceDeclaration(xsi) is NOT generating the 
namespace declaration

I spoke with the OAI authers and they have this declaration in there so 
that the DC portion can stand on it's own if necessary

Thanks for any help


Curtis Fornadley
310.206.9782
Fax: 310.206.5337