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

[Nate P. <npa...@no...>]

Update on this: 

From playing around a bit more, it seems the following holds true:
1) Just adding an xmlns attribute to a node does not make it belong to
that namespace (how does one set the namespace on inserted nodes
then)?.
2) Using an existing document with a namespace declaration, and doing
nothing more than writing it out using the outputter="simple" adds a few
superfluous namespace declarations, for example _NS1: __NS1:. 
3) Not using the outputter="simple" solves my original problem (the
unwanted presence of xmlns="" on any node I insert using the text body
of the insert sub-task), but makes the output hard to read as the
inserted nodes are not indented. 

So, is this a bug in in the 'simple' outputter? Is there a way to have
my cake and eat it too? I want properly behaving namespaces AND a well
formatted document. 

Thanks again. 







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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.