[jdom-interest] Namespace issues, et al.

[Malachi de AElfweald]

Carefully trying to recreate the code from work.... this is what I came up 
with...

#1 was my fault. It was caused because I was adding the schemaLocation to 
each element
as well as the xmlns and xmlns:xsi

#2 however does do that (as per the FAQ)...:
		Namespace xmlns = Namespace.getNamespace("http://www.temporal- 
wave.com/spec");
		Namespace xsins = 
Namespace.getNamespace("xsi","http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
		Attribute xsiloc = new Attribute("schemaLocation", "http://www.temporal- 
wave.com/spec jbase.xsd", xsins);

		Element outer = new Element("outer", xmlns);
		outer.addNamespaceDeclaration(xsins);
		outer.setAttribute(xsiloc);

		Document doc = new Document(outer);

		Element middle = new Element("middle");
		outer.addContent(middle);

		Element inner = new Element("inner");
		middle.addContent(inner);

		XMLOutputter out = new XMLOutputter("  ", true);
		out.output(doc, System.out);

So, here's the deal.... if I explicitely pass xmlns to the constructor for 
middle and inner,
then XMLOutputter is CORRECTLY ripping them out when it outputs them (see 
my comment about #1 above).
However, that is not intuitive.  The reason is that the above code more 
correctly represents the visual
(textual) representation of the XML I want output.  I see that this relates 
directly to the question about
"moving" elements around.  On the other hand, I would argue that the 
"inner" element isn't IN the document
until it is added, so the above is not trying to "move" it around.

I haven't looked at cvs to see what the code actually looks like, but the 
most natural way for a JDOM
developer who is just starting to use namespaces would be to do:

	Element outer = new Element("outer");
	outer.setAttribute("xmlns", "http://www.temporal-wave.com/spec");
	outer.setAttribute("xmlns:xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema- 
instance");
	outer.setAttribute("xsi:schemaLocation", "http://www.temporal- 
wave.com/spec jbase.xsd");
	Document doc = new Document(outer);

The reason I say this is more natural is because we see some xml format 
(say the w3schools tutorial),
and type in exactly what we see.... though I understand the spec says that 
those are reserved, etc...
the current format is non-intuitive...

Needless to say, I know what I need to do to make the code work... I have 
to explicitely add the xmlns
(and xmlns:xsi and fo and...???) and NOT include the xsi:schemaLocation on 
each attribute...


In regards to the XML1.1 issue.... JDOM obviously doesn't seem to care if I 
am reading a document stated
version="1.1"....  is there any reason I can't send "1.1" so that they know 
I am using Unicode 3? Is there
anything in JDOM that will just break? How do I pass version="1.1"?

Malachi


	
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:56:54 -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold 
<elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

> At 2:44 PM -0800 2/23/03, Malachi de AElfweald wrote:
>
>> If you try to create that document, you get one of two scenarios...
>> 1) every element says xmlns="http://www.temporal-wave.com/spec" (thus, 
>> lots of overhead over the network)
>> 2) the top element says that, the next one says xmlns="", and then 
>> everything inside that doesn't show xmlns at all.
>
> You've either uncovered a bug in the Serializer or there's a bug in your 
> code, probably related to misuse of namespaces. I strongly suspect the 
> latter, but the former is possible. If you could show a simple test case 
> we could tell you which.



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