[Heavily edited as understanding progresses]
Is it possible to get Spring Jaxb2Marshaller to use a custom set of namespace prefixes (or at least respect the ones given in the schema file/annotations) without having to use an extension of a NamespacePrefixMapper?
The idea is to have a class with a "has a" relationship to another class that in turn contains a property with a different namespace. To better illustrate this consider the following project outline which uses JDK1.6.0_12 (the latest I can get my hands on at work). I have the following in the package org.example.domain:
Main.java:
package org.example.domain;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException {
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(RootElement.class);
RootElement re = new RootElement();
re.childElementWithXlink = new ChildElementWithXlink();
Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
marshaller.marshal(re, System.out);
}
}
RootElement.java:
package org.example.domain;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
@XmlRootElement(namespace = "www.example.org/abc", name="Root_Element")
public class RootElement {
@XmlElement(namespace = "www.example.org/abc")
public ChildElementWithXlink childElementWithXlink;
}
ChildElementWithXLink.java:
package org.example.domain;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchemaType;
@XmlRootElement(namespace="www.example.org/abc", name="Child_Element_With_XLink")
public class ChildElementWithXlink {
@XmlAttribute(namespace = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink")
@XmlSchemaType(namespace = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink", name = "anyURI")
private String href="http://www.example.org";
}
package-info.java:
@javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema(
namespace = "http://www.example.org/abc",
xmlns = {
@javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNs(prefix = "abc", namespaceURI ="http://www.example.org/abc"),
@javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNs(prefix = "xlink", namespaceURI = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink")
},
elementFormDefault = javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED)
package org.example.domain;
Running Main.main() gives the following output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ns2:Root_Element xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns2="www.example.org/abc">
<ns2:childElementWithXlink ns1:href="http://www.example.org"/>
</ns2:Root_Element>
whereas what I would like is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<abc:Root_Element xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:abc="www.example.org/abc">
<abc:childElementWithXlink xlink:href="http://www.example.org"/>
</abc:Root_Element>
Once this part is working, then the problem moves on to configuring the Jaxb2Marshaller in Spring (Spring 2.5.6, with spring-oxm-tiger-1.5.6 providing Jaxb2Marshaller) so that it provides the same by means of a simple context configuration and a call to marshal().
Thank you for your continued interest in this problem!