Mapping to XML

Kontakte · **Joined:** Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:34 pm **Posts:** 6

Hi all,

I'm just curious about using the table to XML mapping functionality. Is there a way to map to elements with namespaces? I've been looking around, but there doesn't seem to be any verbiage around it in the docs. Thanks in advance.

- K

himawan · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:31 pm **Posts:** 139

Sure...

look at "schema" or "catalog" in here

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... on-mapping

and here

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... tion-class

Kontakte · **Joined:** Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:34 pm **Posts:** 6

Thanks for the help, but I meant namespaces within the XML. The two schema attributes that you pointed me to are for Database schemas, not xsds. I'm looking more for something like changing the result from a query to use namespaces (when using the new to-XML mapping mapping ability). Like this:

<core:Person xmlns:core="blah.com/core.xsd">
<core:name>kontakte</core:name>
<pretzel:toy xmlns:pretzel="blah.com/food.xsd">yoyo</pretzel:toy>
</core:Person>

akiel · **Joined:** Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:03 am **Posts:** 9

I would also vote for a namespace feature of the dom4j entity mode. I would be happy if I could put my XML export into a namespace.

Kontakte · **Joined:** Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:34 pm **Posts:** 6

Yeah, one of the things my team at work is looking at is building web services in Java that provide CRUD functionality for Databases. In doing this, we figured that it's only logical to keep the information in an XML format because our transport is SOAP/XML and rarely do we do anything except display this data on a web page... So, if we can get the information in XML from the DB (namespaced so we don't have to do any crazy namespacing), we can keep it in XML until it gets to the client where they'd simply put it through a stylesheet for output! No unnecessary Java Objects!

akiel · **Joined:** Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:03 am **Posts:** 9

Oh yes. Very good point, too. XML without namespaces is like no XML at all.