Re: XMLSerializer and default namespaces

On 2/5/03 21:25, "Aleksander Slominski" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Iain Shigeoka wrote:
> 
>> I've been using the XMLSerializer and really enjoy the API. The only feature
>> that I feel would be really helpful is some way to tell the serializer that
>> I'd prefer a certain start tag namespace declaration be a default namespace
>> declaration rather than have it generate and use a prefix for itself and all
>> children.
>> 
> hi,
> 
> this is not immediately obvious but you can do it already: set default
> namespace by binding
> namespace to prefix that is empty string, see last note in javadoc
> description of :setPrefix():
> 
> http://www.xmlpull.org/v1/doc/api/org/xmlpull/v1/XmlSerializer.html#setPrefix(
> java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)
> 
> and find below a simple sample to demonstrate use of it. - when you run
> this sample
> you should see output similar to this:
> 
> serializer implementation class is class
> org.xmlpull.mxp1_serializer.MXSerializer
> serializer output: <foo
> xmlns="http://examlple.com/sample/namespace">bar</foo>

Thanks, very cool.

>> The motivation is that some xml apps I deal with use their own, home grown
>> xml parsers that aren't namespace aware. So they will often only match the
>> bare tag name (prefixes throws them into a tizzy). This is most common with
>> J2ME midlets although I've seen some desktop apps doing the same.
>> 
> we all have sometimes to deal with imperfect XML - i can only sympathize
> with you :-)

:)

> ps. next verion of XPP3/MXP1 (MXSerializer) will support all optional
> serialzier properties and features  to give greater control on output
> formatting 
> (http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/features.html#serializer-attvalue-use-apostrophe,
> http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/properties.html#serializer-indentation,
> http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/properties.html#serializer-line-separator)

Very nice. I was resorting to a DOM for pretty printing. This will be very
nice.

Thanks

-iain


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