Re: [xml] Fwd: Determing element namespace prefix

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:04:59AM -0800, Akarsha Kumar wrote:
> Hi Rush. Thanks for the response.
>
> I had tried xmlNode.properties->ns->prefix earlier, but it returns a valid
> prefix string even for elements/attributes whose names aren't explicitly
> qualified with a namespace prefix. I'd like to detect the difference between
> the following two element definitions:
>
> <SomeTopLevelElement xmlns:SomePrefix="bla">
> <MyElement> Some data </MyElement>
> </SomeTopLevelElement>
>
> VS
>
> <SomeTopLevelElement xmlns:SomePrefix="bla">
> <SomePrefix:MyElement> Some data </SomePrefix:MyElement>
> </SomeTopLevelElement>

  In the first case the namespace for MyElement is NULL at the C level
(assuming your example is the complete document, for a fragment a default
namespace may change this).

Daniel


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