Appending ns1: in Every field[MAPPING PROBLEM]

Question

Hi All,
I am facing a strange problem when generating the output XML file. The file is generating in XML format with an additional ns1 in each line.
Any idea on this guys.
<b>
<ns1:iABC xmlns:ns1="http://www.ABC.com/xmlschema/ABC/">
<ns1:header>
     <ns1:flow>ACT</ns1:flow>
     <ns1:sender name="XYZ">
     </ns1:sender>
     <ns1:receiver name="PQR">
     </ns1:receiver>
     <ns1:generationDate>2008-05-19</ns1:generationDate>
     <ns1:fileIdent>2008/05/19T13:32:00</ns1:fileIdent>
</ns1:header>
<ns1:ID ="0000000000000000000000012"></b>
Many Thanks,
JGD
Edited by: JGD on May 19, 2008 2:56 PM

Answer 1

Hi Stefan.
Well, the answer is "no"
According to XML spec both declarations
<iABC xmlns="http://www.ABC.com/xmlschema/ABC/">
and
<ns:iABC xmlns=ns:"http://www.ABC.com/xmlschema/ABC/">
are semantically identical.
Any standard xml parser will work with both declarations the same way. The mapping tool always use the first way.
Sometimes legacy systems use "xml like" format with some special restrictions.
In this case the only way to handle that is to use workarounds like with the anonymizer bean.
Another problem I'm aware of is the target file encoding. That's "not officially" solved with hidden menu which you can see if you hold CTRL+SHIFT keys and right click on data flow editor. The last menu item is "encoding" - you can set the encoding of the resulting xml there
Best regards
Dmitry