On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Minudika Malshan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In Siddhi Map Extension, map:createFromXML will return a hashmap created
> from the given XML payload.
>
> However, when this payload has a namespace, that namespace is propagated
> to the child elements also. Therefore in such cases, in the generated hash
> map will have the keys in the following format instead of having only the
> element name.
>
> *{namespace}elementName*
>
> Therefore, when trying to retrieve values from that map, Instead of using
> only the element name as the key, we have to provide the key in above
> format.
>
> Eg :
> We have to use,
>
> *map:get(map, '{namespace}key)*
> instead of
> *map:get(map, 'key')*
>
> In the documentation, this has not been mentioned. [1]
>
> Shall we add these info to the doc?
> Or Is it safe to change the implementation to drop the namespace and to
> generate the map with element names as the keys?
>
When processing a XML element, we have to consider the namespace. If not,
we will end up many issues. I am OK for using namespace with key. Let's
document that.
BTW, do we need to provide namespace inside curly brace ?
Thanks,
Mohan
>
> [1] https://docs.wso2.com/display/CEP420/Map+Extension
>
> Thanks and regards!
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