Question

I am looking for example Java code that can construct an XML document that uses namespaces. I cannot seem to find anything using my normal favourite tool so was hoping someone may be able to help me out.

Answer 1

I am not sure, what you trying to do, but I use jdom for most of my xml-issues and it supports namespaces (of course).

The code:

Document doc = new Document(); Namespace sNS = Namespace.getNamespace('someNS', 'someNamespace'); Element element = new Element('SomeElement', sNS); element.setAttribute('someKey', 'someValue', Namespace.getNamespace('someONS', 'someOtherNamespace')); Element element2 = new Element('SomeElement', Namespace.getNamespace('someNS', 'someNamespace')); element2.setAttribute('someKey', 'someValue', sNS); element.addContent(element2); doc.addContent(element); 

produces the following xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>  <someNS:SomeElement xmlns:someNS='someNamespace' xmlns:someONS='someOtherNamespace'  someONS:someKey='someValue'>   <someNS:SomeElement someNS:someKey='someValue' />  </someNS:SomeElement> 

Which should contain everything you need. Hope that helps.