Re: [Exist-open] Namespace confusion

[Roy W. <gar...@ya...>]

Roy Walter wrote:
>
>
> Pieter Deelen wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Roy Walter <gar...@ya...> wrote:
>>   
>>> Pieter Deelen wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Roy Walter <gar...@ya...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> The following query returns <data xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/>
>>>>> and not the return value from the function.
>>>>>
>>>>>  xquery version "1.0";
>>>>>  declare default element namespace "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
>>>>>  declare variable $lookup := local:make-lookup();
>>>>>  declare option exist:serialize "method=html media-type=text/html";
>>>>>
>>>>>  declare function local:make-lookup()
>>>>>  {
>>>>>      let $departments :=
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> doc("http://dev.govmonitor.com/slackwire/groups/@departments.xml")//member
>>>>>      let $stakeholders :=
>>>>>
>>>>> doc("http://dev.govmonitor.com/slackwire/groups/@stakeholders.xml")//member
>>>>>
>>>>>      return <data>{$departments}{$stakeholders}</data>
>>>>>  };
>>>>>
>>>>>  local:make-lookup()
>>>>>
>>>>> What should the namespace declaration look like for this to work
>>>>> correctly? (The Atom namespace is required because the rest of the query
>>>>> does stuff with eXist atom feeds.)
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> In which namespace are the member elements from your input document?
>>>>
>>>> Pieter
>>>>       
>>> Thanks Pieter, that put me on the right track :-)
>>>
>>>     
>> You're welcome. I usually avoid declaring a default namespace. Things
>> can get very confusing when you try to combine multiple documents
>> and/or queries with differing default namespaces.
>>
>> Pieter
> I think my problem is that the atompub docs created by eXist have only 
> a default namespace declaration <entry 
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"></entry>. Querying external docs 
> (as above) and eXist atompub docs only works if I declare a namespace 
> and add a prefix to all the elements in my external XML docs.
>
> Am I understanding that correctly?
>
> -- Roy
Or simply declare the Atom namespace in my external docs! :-)