Is there any way to define a Prefix for the Schema URI?

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JeanKap - 09 May 2006 22:34 GMT

I'm working with XML documents that contain WordprocessingML along with our
own semantic XML content.

I would like to be able to choose my own prefix for the default namespace
URI. Word automatically declares Ns0, Ns1, etc. based on the number of
schemas registered in the Schema library. We have portability issues, so it
would be better if we could choose our own fixed default URI prefix rather
than rely on Word to generate one for us - Ns0 on one machine could be Ns12
on another and that leads to a whole lot of mess!

Thanks in advance for any ideas you can offer up on this quandry.

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Peter Jamieson - 16 May 2006 07:45 GMT

As far as I can see, the only things you could do are
a. save using a transform that changes the URI prefix. I do not know if it
is possible to write an XSL transform that does that.
b. fix the prefixes using some code that goes through doing a find/replace.
Unfortunately, such code needs to distinguish between "ns1" in a prefix and
"ns1" in the body of the document, etc., which is obviously why an XML-aware
transform would be preferable, if it is possible.

Sorry I can't tell you whether or not (a) is possible.

Peter Jamieson

> I'm working with XML documents that contain WordprocessingML along with
> our
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> Thanks in advance for any ideas you can offer up on this quandry.

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JeanKap - 16 May 2006 15:40 GMT

Thanks for confirming my hunch. I'm pretty sure that you could do a
transform that redeclared the namespace with a prefix and then applied the
prefix to every non-WordprocessingML document. That's something worth
looking into, although it sounds like it may take more time than we really
need to spend on this one.

Thanks again!

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