Best way to read Namespace from XML stream (using Java)

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I was wondering if people had some opinions on the following.

I have XML segments like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<clashes:MatchingElementAndAttribute xmlns:clashes="http://example.com/AttribElemClashes" clash="123">
        <clash>strval</clash>
</clashes:MatchingElementAndAttribute>

And I want to be able to extract the namespace of the XML fragment.

What is the best way of doing this (within Java) - and the most performant.

Thanks for any help and suggestions

Rob

To Clarify, it's the string ' example.com/AttribElemClashes ' that I would want in this case - thank — Rob
– Rob, Commented May 11, 2011 at 9:19

Krishna · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-11 09:49:45Z

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You can use stax parser like woodstox as it will perform well even with large XMLs. It loads XML as a stream and you will get event for start of the element. It also provides a way to get the QName (Qualified name) of the element as an object which also has the namespace available as a property.

Have a look at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/09/17/stax.html

edited May 11, 2011 at 9:49

answered May 11, 2011 at 9:15

Krishna

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محسن عباسی · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-12 09:47:43Z

reading XML that uses Namespaces. Please use the following code exactly, without any even little change.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:aapi="http://rdf.alchemyapi.com/rdf/v1/s/aapi-schema#" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" xml:base="http://rdf.alchemyapi.com/rdf/v1/r/response.rdf">
<rdf:Description rdf:ID="d1dfa235105c033dec6dffdff63239d8b802087d9">
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://rdf.alchemyapi.com/rdf/v1/s/aapi-schema#DocInfo"/>
    <aapi:ResultStatus>OK</aapi:ResultStatus>
    <aapi:Usage>By accessing AlchemyAPI or using information generated by AlchemyAPI, you are agreeing to be bound by the AlchemyAPI Terms of Use: http://www.alchemyapi.com/company/terms.html</aapi:Usage>
    <aapi:URL/>
    <aapi:Language>english</aapi:Language>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description >

    <aapi:Relevance>0.9683</aapi:Relevance>
    <aapi:Name>Access control</aapi:Name>
        <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Access_control"/>
        <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/guid.9202a8c04000641f8000000000051124"/>
</rdf:Description>

for the above XML , you can just use the following good Java code. I suggest you to not search in Google anymore before testing of this code by your own:

import javax.xml.parsers.*;

DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);

        DocumentBuilder docBuilder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();

   org.w3c.dom.Document  doc = docBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(strAbstractRdf))); 

   NodeList nl = doc.getElementsByTagNameNS("*","Description");    //the tag name

   for (int kk=0;kk< nl.getLength(); kk++)
   {
         Node eDes = nl.item(kk);
         if(eDes.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
         {

             Element eDescrition = (Element)eDes;
             NodeList nlTermName= eDescrition.getElementsByTagNameNS("*","Relevance");
             if(nlTermName.getLength() > 0)
             {
                 Element eTermName =(Element) nlTermName.item(0);
                 System.out.println(eTermName.getTextContent());
             }

         }



   }

Brian · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-11 09:01:44Z

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You shouldn't see a clash here, the fact that your attribute and child element are both called "clash" really shouldn't be a problem.

Do you have an existing parser running at all? Is it having difficulty with this, e.g. throwing exceptions, failing to do what you expect?

answered May 11, 2011 at 9:01

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Rob Over a year ago

Hi Brian, The XML is indeed fine - it's just some test code I grabbed as an example. My question is a more generic one. What do people think is the easiest and safeset way to retrieve the namespace from XML similar to this. - thanks, Rob

Brian Over a year ago

SAX is extremely fast, it fires an "event" method every time it hits an element eg: public void startElement(String namespaceURL, String localName, String qname, Attributes attributes). You can then do anything you like with this info.

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