Hi James,
As a work-around, in the mapping file, just remove the DOCTYPE declaration, this will prevent the XML parser from validating the NMTOKEN. --Keith James Elson wrote: > > Hi, > > We've recently upgraded from Castor 0.9.4 to 0.9.5.3 and hit a problem regarding > namespaces. Our output documents need a namespace and to keep things tidy, this > was being set as the default namespace so the output documents looked like > this: > > <foo xmlns="http://foo.bar.com/ns/something"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://foo.bar.com/ns/something something.xsd"> > > <myThing att="whatever"> > <and>so on</and> > </myThing> > </foo> > > We achieved this by setting the namespaceMapping for the default namespace as > follows: > > marshaller.setNamespaceMapping("", "http://foo.bar.com/ns/something";); > marshaller.setSchemaLocation("http://foo.bar.com/ns/something something.xsd"); > > This used to work fine but the new version resets the default namespace to "" so > the resulting document looks like this: > > <foo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://foo.bar.com/ns/something something.xsd" > xmlns=""> > > <myThing att="whatever"> > <and>so on</and> > </myThing> > </foo> > > i.e. the namespace URI is an empty string. > > An earlier post from Keith implied this was by design (and I see there was a bit > of code added to Marshaller.java to handle this specific case). The solution it > seems is to add the namespace to the mapping file, so that the elements > generated have the correct namespace and hence would map to the prefix > specified in the setNamespaceMapping() calls. > > So, I tried to do this using the ns-uri attribute of the <map-to> element: > > <mapping> > <description>myThing mapping</description> > <class name="com.bar.myThing"> > <map-to xml="myThing" ns-uri="http://foo.bar.com/ns/something"; /> > ... > </class> > </mapping> > > However, this has hit a problem pretty quickly. The mapping.dtd file specifies > that the attribute ns-uri must be an NMTOKEN. The "http://"; style URI doesn't > conform to the grammar for NMTOKEN (those slashes). So the mapping file doesn't > parse: > > SAXException: Parsing Error: Attribute value "http://foo.bar.com/ns/something"; > of type NMTOKEN must be a name token. > > That makes sense given the DTD. So, how *should* I be using this attribute? The > examples I've seen that specify this attribute also use http:// style URIs so > how do they parse? > > I've had a dig around in the mail archives and documentation, but to no avail. > I'm sure I must be missing something obvious, so any help would be most > appreciated. > > James > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > unsubscribe castor-user ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-user
