I wish to build an XML document up node by node. The nodes will be build in functions that call functions to build child nodes and append them. Quite a straight forward way of doing XML, IMO.

All the methods I have seen to build a node that is in a namespace http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/14/xml-libxml.html?page=2 for instance need the XML::LibXML::Document. To achieve this I would need to pass a XML::LibXML::Document element around the functions or have it as a global.

What I really want is a version of XML::LibXML::Element->new(<name>, <name space>)

XML::LibXML::Element->setNamespace is not what I want as it adds namespase declarations

An example of what I am trying to do... 

# Create (local) root node named $rname,  the children will be $cname1
+ and $cname2, $cname1 is in the same namespace as $rname and $cname2 
+is in a different namespace
my $node = XML::LibXML::Element->new($rname);
# I want to declare the namespaces and prefixes the children will use.
+ NS_name1 is the namespace of the node itself but it has child nodes 
+that use NS_name2
$node->setNamespace(NS_name1, NS_prefix1, 1);
$node->setNamespace(NS_name2, NS_prefix2, 0);
# Creating the children.  Thi sis not valid code, this is what I want
my $cnode1 = XML::LibXML::Element->new($cname1, $NS_name1);
my $cnode2 = XML::LibXML::Element->new($cname2, $NS_name2);
$node->appendChild($cnode1);
$node->appendChild($cnode2);
return $node;

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This way I need global knowledge of the name space names (and prefixes, but it would be trivial to avoid that) but I do not need to pass the complete document around as an argument or make it global

Is there some way of doing this (a two argument version of XML::LibXML::Element::new) or do I need to have the root of the tree accessible to the code making leaves/sub-trees?

Worik

In reply to Creating Nodes in namespace with XML::LibXML by worik

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