Re: How do I access the original name for XML elements, including the original namespace prefix.

Thursday, October 23, 2008, 11:37:12 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote:

> Thursday, October 23, 2008, 2:17:04 AM, Geoff Shuetrim wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:19 +0200, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> I
>>> still think that the easiest would be if you configure the document
>>> builder factory to namespace unaware. Of course, if you also have to
>>> use the same DOM for other purposes than reproducing an XML source
>>> code, then that's not an option.
>> [snip]
>>
>> You are right that this is the sticking point.  The DOM is more normally
>> used for things where namespace awareness is critical.  I can parse the
>> XML document both ways but that is not particularly elegant so I have
>> been casting around for other options.
>>
>> I am not sure I quite get Jonathan's suggestion yet.  Does it involve
>> tinkering with the Freemarker freemarker.ext.dom.ElementModel and
>> freemarker.ext.dom.NodeOutputter classes so that I can use
>> @@original_prefix as a key for element nodes?  That looks like it would
>> work but it is a pity to be customising Freemarker directly.
>
> I meant that *we* could add that. However, more would be needed for
> what you need. First of all, you can't even get the local name of the
> element, so @@local_name should be added too.

Ehh, stupid me... theElement?node_name gives that.

> Secondly, you will have
> to generate the xmlns:... attributes as well, and as things stand you
> can't even get their @@qname now,

?node_name still works there too... like for xmlns:d you get "d". Only
I'm not sure how to find out that there is an "xmlns:" before it.
Yeah, our wrapper is definitely not designed for restoring the XML
source, it's for processing the XML infoset.

> as it seems to be undefined.
>
>> As a side question, where can I read about the convention regarding
>> variables with names that start with @ and @@?  I have not come across
>> anything in the reference pages on the website.
>
> As I said earlier:
> http://freemarker.org/docs/xgui_imperative_formal.html

And this too:
http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_builtins_node.html

>> Regards
>>
>> Geoff Shuetrim

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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