On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Eilon Yardeni <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to create empty element in a stanza. > > Using the startInnerElement API always adds a namespace attribute.
It's not perfectly clear what you want to accomplish, so please correct me if I understood you wrong. An XML element when namespace aware can either be in a namespace or in the empty namespace. Namespaces are by default inherited from the element parent. So, if you want your inner element to be in the empty namespace, you need: <outer xmlns="http://example.com";><inner xmlns="" /></outer> Inner must here override the namespace from it's parent and thus need the xmlns="" stuff. In Vysper: new XMLElementBuilder("outer", "http://example.com";).startInnerElement("inner").endInnerElement() If you want the inner namespace to have the same namespace as it's parent: <outer xmlns="http://example.com";><inner /></outer> In Vysper: new XMLElementBuilder("outer", "http://example.com";).startInnerElement("inner", "http://example.com";).endInnerElement() You can also use namespace prefixes as aliases for the full URL, but I'm not sure if that makes any difference for your question. /niklas
