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

[Rolf Lear]

Hi Phiri.

'declare' the namespaces at the root level:

http://hunterhacker.github.com/jdom/jdom2/apidocs/org/jdom2/Element.html#addNamespaceDeclaration(org.jdom2.Namespace)

rootNodeElement.addNamespaceDeclaration(dc);
rootNodeElement.addNamespaceDeclaration(dcterms);


Rolf


On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:13:38 +0200, Lighton Phiri
<lighton.phiri at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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
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