Re: [Exist-open] Adding @xmlns to root element - with eXist xquery update

[Pierrick B. <pie...@fr...>]

Hi,

Joe Wicentowski a écrit :

> So is there no good way to add an @xmlns to the root element of a
> document?  Is the only solution to "remove the document"?  If need be
> I can do that, I guess.

I'm afraid you have to reconstruct every element in the new namespace : 
you are really changing their identity (in other words, it's not "just" 
a matter of adding an "attribute"). Once done, eXist should handle the 
namespace declaration automatically in the right place :-)

Unfortunately, this is not very easy to do in XQuery, at least in just a 
single line. We have described such a "copy constructor" several times 
on this mailing-list though...

Cheers,

p.b.