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javaxmldom4j
Chinmoy Acharjee
Chinmoy Acharjee

Reputation: 550

Added redundant empty NameSpace while adding newly created element in somewhere middle of the xml document in java dom4j

I have xml template like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root xmlns="..." xmlns:xsi="..." xsi:schemaLocation="...">
    <body>
        <content id="unique_id1">
        </content>
        <content id="unique_id2">
        </content>
    </body>
</root>

What I want to achieve is I want to insert new elements inside content tag by finding them by corresponding id.

Such as:

Element element = doc.selectSingleNode(//*[@id='unique_id2']");

Element newElement = DocumentHelper.createElement("new-element");
newElement.addText("new element text");

element.add(newElement);

This code can insert the newElement inside the specific element. But in newElement, a blank namespace is added automatically.

After insertion, the xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root xmlns="..." xmlns:xsi="..." xsi:schemaLocation="...">
    <body>
        <content id="unique_id1">
        </content>
        <content id="unique_id2">
           <new-element xmlns="">new element text</new-element>
        </content>
    </body>
</root>

So how to stop the empty namespace being added in the newElement?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 178

Answers (1)

forty-two
forty-two

Reputation: 12817

You need to assign the correct namespace to the new Element; in this case the same namespace as the parent element:

    Element newElement = DocumentHelper.createElement(QName.get("new-element", element.getNamespace()));

Upvotes: 0

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