Set namespace using jdom
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The following outputs (to System.out)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns2:test xmlns:ns2="url2" xmlns="url" xmlns:ns3="url3">Some text</ns2:test>
import java.io.IOException;
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.JDOMException;
import org.jdom.Namespace;
import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;
public class Test {
public static void main(String args[]) throws JDOMException, IOException {
Namespace ns = Namespace.getNamespace("url");
Namespace ns2 = Namespace.getNamespace("ns2", "url2");
Namespace ns3 = Namespace.getNamespace("ns3", "url3");
Document vDocument = new Document();
org.jdom.Element test = new org.jdom.Element("test", ns2);
vDocument.setRootElement(test);
//add "url" default namespace
test.addNamespaceDeclaration(ns);
test.addNamespaceDeclaration(ns2);
test.addNamespaceDeclaration(ns3);
test.addContent("Some text");
//dump output to System.out
XMLOutputter xo = new XMLOutputter();
xo.output(vDocument, System.out);
}
}
you need the line
test.addNamespaceDeclaration(ns);
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Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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I would like have this format in xml:
<ns2: test xmlns="url" xmlns:ns2="url2" xmlns:ns3="url3"> .... </ns2: test>
I am using the following code:
Namespace ns= Namespace.getNamespace("url"); Namespace ns2 = Namespace.getNamespace("ns2", "url2"); Namespace ns3= Namespace.getNamespace("ns3", "url3"); SAXBuilder vDocBuilder = new SAXBuilder(); Document vDocument = vDocBuilder.build(File); System.out.println("Root element " + vDocument.getRootElement().getName()); org.jdom.Element test = new org.jdom.Element("test", ns); vDocument.setRootElement(test); vNewRootElement.addNamespaceDeclaration(ns2); vNewRootElement.addNamespaceDeclaration(ns3);
If I set namespace with:
vNewRootElement.setNamespace(ns3);
Then I get thi:s
<ns2: test xmlns:ns2="url2" xmlns:ns3="url3"> ... </ns2: test> without the default namespace xmlns="url".
Can anybody tell me why it dosen't work and is there a way to solve this problem?
Thanks, haner