RE: Prefix question

I thought that the attribute xmlns:ga="http://ga.afl.com/"; in the <xs:schema> 
tag reflects that.  Isn’t that true?  

Nope, that just declares a namespace. AFAIK, there's is no way within an XSD to 
require an element be qualified using a prefix. I also thought most parsers 
would consider this

<readGroupRequest xmlns="http://ga.afl.com/";>

and 

<ga:readGroupRequest xmlns:ga="http://ga.afl.com/";>

to be the same.

Why does the XML need to have this prefix?

Also, I'm not sure setSaveSuggestedPrefixes will do what you need, try, 
setAggressivePrfixes (?)

 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Dogan Atay [mailto:DAtay@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tue 1/11/2005 2:30 PM 
To: user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Cc: 
Subject: RE: Prefix question



        Justin,

        I think I have asked my question in a wrong way.

        My application is NOT dependent on ‘ga’ prefix.    The output xml of

         

        <readGroupRequest xmlns="http://ga.afl.com/";>

          <groupNumber>12345</groupNumber>

        </readGroupRequest>

         

        is namespace qualified with a no-prefix.  That is fine.  My schema 
shows that this namespace is qualified with the ‘ga’ prefix.  

         

        I thought that the attribute xmlns:ga="http://ga.afl.com/"; in the 
<xs:schema> tag reflects that.  Isn’t that true?  

         

        My question is that when I call getName().getPrefix() for this QName 
why is ‘ga’ not shown? 

         

        Thanks,

         

        Dogan Atay

         

        
  _____  


        Parsers are free to choose their own prefixes (or none at all). Why is 

        your application dependent on the prefix "ga"? The URI to which this 

        prefix points is what's important, not the prefix itself.

         

        - Justin

         

         

        From: Dogan Atay 
        Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:46 PM
        To: user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: Prefix question

         

        I have a schema like the following

         

        <xs:schema 

        targetNamespace="http://ga.afl.com/"; 

        xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; 

        elementFormDefault="qualified" 

        attributeFormDefault="unqualified" 

        xmlns:ga="http://ga.afl.com/"; 

        xmlns:png="http://ga.afl.com/png/"; 

        xmlns:pnr="http://ga.afl.com/pnr/"; 

        xmlns:ct="http://es.afl.com/ct/";>

         

              <xs:import namespace=http://es.aflc.com/ct/ 
schemaLocation="ct.xsd"/>

              <xs:import namespace="http://ga.afl.com/png/"; 
schemaLocation="Png.xsd"/>

              <xs:import namespace="http://ga.afl.com/pnr/"; 
schemaLocation="Pnr.xsd"/>

         

              

              <xs:element name="readGroupRequest" 
type="ga:GroupIdentifierType"/>

         

              <xs:complexType name="GroupIdentifierType">

                    <xs:choice>

                          <xs:element name="pngId" type="xs:integer"/>

                          <xs:element name="batchId" type="png:BatchIDType"/>

                          <xs:element name="groupNumber" 
type="ct:GroupNumberType"/>

                    </xs:choice>

              </xs:complexType>

        </xs:schema>

         

        After the schema is compiled I do the following

         

        SchemaType type = ReadGroupRequestDocument.type;

        SchemaProperty[] schemaProperties = type.getElementProperties();

        for(int i=0; i < schemaProperties.length; i++)

        {

              SchemaProperty schemaProperty = schemaProperties[i];

              QName qName = schemaProperty.getName();

                                

              System.out.println("NamespaceURI: " + qName.getNamespaceURI());

              System.out.println("LocalPart: " + qName.getLocalPart());

              System.out.println("Prefix: " + qName.getPrefix());

        }

         

        The output of that code is

        NamespaceURI: http://ga.afl.com/

        LocalPart: readGroupRequest

        Prefix:

         

         

        What I do not understand is why the prefix is not “ga”.  The schema has 
this information.

         

        I need to get this information out of the schema because the xml I 
generate must have this prefix.  I will use XMLOptions 
setSaveSuggestedPrefixes() method but I do not want to hardcode a prefix in my 
source code.  How else can I get the prefix from the schema?

         

        Thanks,

         

        Dogan Atay