Are you creating the problem elements with code or are they in your loaded document?
Jon Brisbin wrote: > Searched in the archives and didn't find what I was looking for (but not > really sure what I'm looking for, so don't throw things at me if this > has been asked before). > > I have an XML template that I read into a DOM4J (using 1.6) document > when I begin processing. The default namespace is set in the document > and I set it again, just for good measure: > > SAXParser p = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser(); > > DocumentFactory df = DocumentFactory.getInstance(); > df.setXPathNamespaceURIs( namespaces ); > > SAXContentHandler ch = new SAXContentHandler(); > p.parse( ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream( TEMPLATE_FILE ), ch ); > > Document doc = ch.getDocument(); > doc.getRootElement().addNamespace( "", EFILE_NS ); > > > When I process the raw data, I do XPath lookups on nodes in the template > and set them like so: > > XPath xp = root.createXPath( xpath ); > xp.setNamespaceURIs( namespaces ); > Element e = (Element) xp.selectSingleNode( root ); > if ( e != null ) { > e.setText( value ); > return e; > } else { > return root; > } > > But when the file is generated, some of the elements below the root > element (but not all of them) have namespaces set to '' (blank). This > causes the other party's XML processing to blow up with the error that > the element with the blank namespace isn't in the E-file namespace, like > it's supposed to be. > > If the namespace is set in the template, then I would expect it work > correctly when I've read that document in and set the namespaces > accordingly. That's not happening and some elements in the DOM are being > "taken out" of the default namespace. > > Can someone shed some light on why this is happening? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user