Re: [Exist-open] Namespace declarations not stored in DB?

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

Hi,

> I am creating an XMLResource and setting its content using the string 
> "<foo:bar xmlns:foo='blah'/>":
> 
>                 XMLResource r = 
> (XMLResource)collection.createResource("foo.xml", "XMLResource");
>                 r.setContent("<foo:bar xmlns:foo='blah'/>");
>                 collection.storeResource(r);
> 
> Later on I pull the contents back, and I find all the namespace 
> declarations are gone:
> 
>                 XMLResource r = 
> (XMLResource)collection.createResource("foo.xml", "XMLResource");
>                 DOMSource s = new DOMSource(r.getContentAsDOM());
>                 StreamResult r = new StreamResult(System.out);
>                 
> TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer().transform(s, r);
> 
> output I receive is just "<foo:bar/>", without the namespace 
> declaration. Have I lost my namespaces? How can I get them back?

The namespace declaration is stored along with <foo:bar>. You should see
it if you call r.getContent().toString(). The identity transformation
should also preserve the namespace declaration (?), but this is out of
eXist's control.

Wolfgang