automatic generation of namespace prefixes?

[Thomas Corte <Th...@knipp.de>]

Hi,

trying to create an XML document using Xerces' 1.4.2 XMLSerializer,
I guess it should possible to automatically generate the needed
xml namespace prefixes for the generated element names, i.e. to use

 doc.createElementNS (<ns uri>, "<elemname>");

instead of adding the prefix manually every time like

 doc.createElementNS (<ns uri>, "<prefix>:<elemname>");

and have Xerces add (and possibly even choose) the necessary
ns <prefix> automatically.

However, I can't get this to work with Xerces 1.4.2.
What precautions (i.e., flags to configure the serializer or similar)
have to be taken to accomplish this?

Regards,

_____

Thomas Corte
<th...@knipp.de>


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Re: automatic generation of namespace prefixes?

[Joseph Kesselman <ke...@us.ibm.com>]

See the DOM Level 3 Working Draft's discussion of "namespace 
normalization" for a recommended way of handling this. As far as I know 
that algorithm is still evolving, and I don't know how much of it the 
Xerces serializers impelement.

______________________________________
Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

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