> I don't know as it is that much cleaner, but in the > mapping file you > can declare your namespace as the default and give > Castor a prefix. > That allows you to skip the prefixes in the bind-xml > name attributes > at least.
So far I have not declared a namespace for castor in the mapping file. I assume that it is not a requirement since the code works fine without declaring the castor namespace. -Saladin --- Stephen Bash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saladin- > > Oops... Rereading your message I got a clearer > picture of what you're > asking... No, I don't think there is a more > straight forward way to > handle the ns-uri attribute vs. the bind-xml name > attribute. You > might try searching the mailing list archives for > ns-uri and see if > there has been a discussion about why this is so... > (I vaguely > remember having a conversation with someone about > it, and I don't > remember if it is supposed to be this way or it is a > left over that > should be changed...) > > Below is my original response because it may be of > help to someone > else in the future. (I thought the question was > "can I avoid having > to specify prefixes for all my bind-xml elements") > > I don't know as it is that much cleaner, but in the > mapping file you > can declare your namespace as the default and give > Castor a prefix. > That allows you to skip the prefixes in the bind-xml > name attributes > at least. I think you still need the ns-uri > attribute though... > > It really comes down to the fact that the mapping > file has two > different schema's interacting, so the namespaces > need to be > separated. You can choose to make one or the other > default and prefix > the other or vice versa. Honestly, the few times I > really had to have > careful validation of everything, I put prefixes on > both namespaces as > a double check for myself. > > HTH, > Stephen ********************************************************** * Saladin Sharif * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Visit homepage @ http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~sharifs ********************************************************** ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
