Re: [Xmltask-users] Problem with namespaces in output document.

[Brian Agnew]

Hi Nate, Which JVM and Ant version are you using ? If I do this:      <xmltask source="a.xml" dest="b.xml" report="true" failWithoutMatch="true">      <insert path="/:portlet-app/:portlet/:portlet-name"              position="before">             <![CDATA[<description xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd"                       xml:lang="${lang}">${portlet.description}</description>]]>       </insert>    </xmltask> (which looks like what you have below), then I get: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <portlet-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd">   <portlet>    <description xml:lang="${lang}">${portlet.description}</description> <portlet-name>SomePortlet</portlet-name>   </portlet> </portlet-app> which looks like what you want. I'm running Ant 1.6.3 and JDK 1.5.0_05. Can you confirm if the above does/doesn't do what you want ? Thx. Brian ps. namespaces are a real pain to deal with - with or without XmlTask. I'm wondering if XmlTask could provide namespace-specific functions. Answers on a postcard... Nate Pahucki wrote: Hello all, I hope someone can help with this. I have a document with a namespace in a buffer, I try to add some nodes to it with the insert sub-task of xmltask, but when the document is later written, the nodes I inserted have an attribute of xmlns="" which seems to explicitly declare NO namespace. I don't want the xmlns to show up at all, resulting in the nodes I inserted having the same namespace as the parent node. The source document (one in the buffer) looks something like: <portlet-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd"> <portlet> <portlet-name>SomePortlet</portlet-name> ..... </portlet> </portlet-app> Here is the code snippet that does the insert: <xmltask sourcebuffer="${frag_tmp}" destbuffer="${frag_tmp}" failWithoutMatch="true" report="false"> <insert path="/:portlet-app/:portlet/:portlet-name" position="before"> <![CDATA[<description xml:lang="${lang}">${portlet.description}</description>]]> </insert> </xmltask> This produces: <portlet-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd"> <portlet> <description xmlns="" xml:lang="xx">Some Description</description> <portlet-name>SomePortlet</portlet-name> ..... </portlet> </portlet-app> I also tried inserting an xmlns attribute explicitly matching the parent document like this: <insert path="/:portlet-app/:portlet/:portlet-name" position="before"> <![CDATA[<description xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd" xml:lang="${lang}">${portlet.description}</description>]]> </insert> but then I end up with this, which fails validation: <portlet-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd"> <portlet> <description __NS1:xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd" xmlns:__NS1="http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/" xml:lang="xx">Some Description</description> <portlet-name>SomePortlet</portlet-name> ..... </portlet> </portlet-app> Is there some trick to getting the text nodes that I insert to assume the parent node's namespace? Thank you in advance for any ideas. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Xmltask-users mailing list Xmltask-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmltask-users -- Brian Agnew http://www.oopsconsultancy.com OOPS Consultancy Ltd brian @ oopsconsultancy.com Tel: +44 (0)7720 397526 Fax: +44 (0)20 8682 0012