Thanks to Jeremy Lew’s answer and a bit more playing around, I figured out how to remove blank xmlns attributes: pass in the root node’s namespace when creating any child node you want not to have a prefix on. Using a namespace without a prefix at the root means that you need to use that … Read more
You can use the local-name() XPath function. Instead of selecting a node like /path/to/x:somenode you can select all nodes and filter for the one with the correct local name: /path/to/*[local-name() = ‘somenode’]
They are all equivalent and will all work. Use prefix as it is the new recommended way and is fewer characters. I’ll get all our documentation updated to prefix.
The app namespace is not specific to a library, but it is used for all attributes defined in your app, whether by your code or by libraries you import, effectively making a single global namespace for custom attributes – i.e., attributes not defined by the android system. In this case, the appcompat-v7 library uses custom … Read more
In XML, xmlns declares a Namespace. In fact, when you do: <LinearLayout android:id> </LinearLayout> Instead of calling android:id, the xml will use http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android:id to be unique. Generally this page doesn’t exist (it’s a URI, not a URL), but sometimes it is a URL that explains the used namespace. The namespace has pretty much the same … Read more
You need to give the .find(), findall() and iterfind() methods an explicit namespace dictionary: namespaces = {‘owl’: ‘http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#’} # add more as needed root.findall(‘owl:Class’, namespaces) Prefixes are only looked up in the namespaces parameter you pass in. This means you can use any namespace prefix you like; the API splits off the owl: part, looks … Read more
It means XML namespace. Basically, every element (or attribute) in XML belongs to a namespace, a way of “qualifying” the name of the element. Imagine you and I both invent our own XML. You invent XML to describe people, I invent mine to describe cities. Both of us include an element called name. Yours refers … Read more