Hey Tim, right that solution would work for me.
I've opened up: http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2819 Best regards, Bart -- Looking for flexible support on OpenLayers or GeoExt? Please check out http://www.osgis.nl/support.html Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS bart...@osgis.nl On Sep 2, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Tim Schaub wrote: > On 9/2/10 3:31 AM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I've been tracking down a problem in the SOS client, where the XML created >> had a value which is QName, i.e.: >> >> <resultModel>om:Measurement</resultModel> >> >> However, even though "om" is in the namespaces object of the format, >> xmlns:om was not added automatically. >> >> Is there a way to do this, similar to what is done for elements which are >> a QName, where things go okay automatically? >> > > The problem is that without a schema, there is no way for the parser to know > the type of a text node. I don't have a good opinion of text nodes of type > QName, and I wish they would just go away. But, assuming that is not going > to happen, we could adopt a convention to manually add xmlns attributes for > each namespace alias in the namespaces object. I think this is what other > systems do (write an xmlns attribute at the root for every namespace that > might possibly appear in the document). > > If the base XML format wrote xmlns attributes in it's write method, other > formats could get this for free if they call this method. > > E.g. XML.js ~ > > write: function(node) { > for (var alias in this.namespaces) { > node.setAttribute("xmlns:" + alias, this.namespaces[alias]); > } > // ... > > Would that do it for you? > > Tim > >> I now programmatically added the xmlns as a workaround. >> >> Index: lib/OpenLayers/Format/SOSGetObservation.js >> =================================================================== >> --- lib/OpenLayers/Format/SOSGetObservation.js (revision 10712) >> +++ lib/OpenLayers/Format/SOSGetObservation.js (working copy) >> @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ >> */ >> write: function(options) { >> var node = this.writeNode("sos:GetObservation", options); >> + node.setAttribute("xmlns:om", this.namespaces.om); >> this.setAttributeNS( >> node, this.namespaces.xsi, >> "xsi:schemaLocation", this.schemaLocation >> >> Best regards, >> Bart >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> d...@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > > > -- > Tim Schaub > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > d...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev