[jdom-interest] Using namespace prefixes for sub-elements

[Lighton Phiri]

Hello,

I've been going through the JavaDoc documentation and cannot seem to
find anything that will help me create a document with fully qualified
namespaces defined in the root element. I do not want to have to
explicitly define the fully qualified namespace for each subsequent
subelement that I define, but rather just use the namespace prefixes.

Code

// namespaces
Namespace dc = Namespace.getNamespace("dc", "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/");
Namespace dcterms = Namespace.getNamespace("dcterms",
"http://purl.org/dc/dcterms/");

// title element
Element dcTitle = new Element("title", dc);
dcTitle.addContent("Notebooks");

// hasPart element
Element dctermsHasPart = new Element("hasPart", dcterms);
dctermsHasPart.addContent("BC_151_A1_4_001");
Element dctermsHasPart2 = new Element("hasPart", dcterms);
dctermsHasPart2.addContent("BC_151_A1_4_002");

// root element
Element rootNodeElement = new Element("resource");
rootNodeElement.addContent(dcTitle);
rootNodeElement.addContent(dctermsHasPart);
rootNodeElement.addContent(dctermsHasPart2);

Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resource>
  <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Notebooks</dc:title>
  <dcterms:hasPart
xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/dcterms/">A1_4_001</dcterms:hasPart>
  <dcterms:hasPart
xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/dcterms/">A1_4_002</dcterms:hasPart>
</resource>

Desired output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resource xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/dcterms/">
  <dc:title>Notebooks</dc:title>
  <dcterms:hasPart>A1_4_001</dcterms:hasPart>
  <dcterms:hasPart>A1_4_002</dcterms:hasPart>
</resource>


-- Phiri