Namespaces in attribute values

[finlay]

Hi

I am having trouble with a XML that has namespaced values. For example:

<Object xmlns:q1="example.org.nz" xsi:type="q1:ObjectType" Other="attributes" are="here" />

I would like to compare the value of the "type" attribute for equality with
"{example.org.nz}ObjectType", but can't do that. The "q1" is just noise.

See this MSDN documentation for where these things come from.

In the meantime I am going to ignore the prefix's in the values, but it is not ideal.

F

[snoyberg]

Sounds like #38. Have you seen psRetainNamespaces?

[finlay]

Yes, it is very similar to the psRetainNamespaces setting. That handles the name space on the attribute name, but not the attribute value.

In the example above, we have xsi:type="q1:ObjectType". The xsi type is handled properly now, and usefully. But the value q1:ObjectType could have the namespace stripped off it, and the q1 namespace added to the namespaces in the name of the attribute.
I like the fact that attribute values are currently Text, so probably don't want to change that.

Would you be interested in a patch ?

Fin

[snoyberg]

Sure, I'd accept a patch to add a new option for resolving namespace values.