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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:09:05 -0800
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Subject: Re: Woody binding of namespaced element
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That is a problem with JXPath. I may be wrong, but if IIRC it doesn't 
support namespaces properly or at all.

Gianugo Rabellino wrote:

> ... I still consider myself quite a newbie on Woody, but I'm facing a 
> tough issue. I need to bind a woody form to some namespaced XML (a 
> SourcePropsWritingTransformer input, in case you were wondering), 
> introducing an element with a new namespace. My binding file so far is 
> as simple as:
>
> <wb:context xmlns:wb="http://apache.org/cocoon/woody/binding/1.0"
>             xmlns:swpt="http://apache.org/cocoon/propwrite/1.0"
>             xmlns:test="http://test.com/test/1.0"
>             path="/source:patch/source:set">
>     <wb:value id="status" path="test:status"/>
> </wb:context>
>
> problem is that in my output I get:
>
>
> <swpt:patch xmlns:swpt="http://apache.org/cocoon/propwrite/1.0">
>   <swpt:source>webdav://localhost/dav/test.xml</swpt:source>
>   <swpt:set>
>      <test:status>publish</test:status>
>    </swpt:set>
> </swpt:patch>
>
> where you can notice that the element is created in a correct way, but 
> the namespace is _not_ declared, so the output is not well-formed XML.
>
> Apart from some obnoxious XSLT tricks that would get the job done, I 
> was wondering if I'm doing something obviously wrong, so I'm asking 
> for your advice before starting to dig the quite scary Woody code. :-)
>