Re: [Tclxml-users] I don't understand node names.

[Steve B. <Ste...@zv...>]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> Here's a node:
>   <ns:some_element name = "myname" ...>
> When I
>   dom::node cget $node -nodeName
> I receive some_element.  To determine ns, I have to
>   array set node [set $node]
>   puts "The namespace is $node(node_prefix)."
> True?  Is there a better way?  Should this be obvious from
> the documentation?

DOM Level 2 provides the 'namespaceURI' and 'prefix'
attributes on the Node interface for this purpose.

In terms of TclDOM v2.2, you can use:

   dom::node cget $node -prefix

to get the NS prefix (usually not of great interest) or

   dom::node cget $node -namespaceURI

to the namespace URI (usually want you need to know).

Looks like the TclDOM man page is not up-to-date wrt
Level 2 features (sigh...).  Please submit a documentation
bug on SF.

HTHs,
Steve Ball

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