How to use org.jdom.NameSpace in setAttribute() method of org.jdom.Element?

Question

Hi to all,
Iam building xml file.In that iam trying to create org.jdom.NameSpace in setAttribute() method of org.jdom.Element object. Iam getting runtime errors like illegal name.
What exactly i want is i want to set "xmlns" as attribute name and "http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim" as attribute value. When iam directly creating that it is throwing exception that no attribute name should be xmlns in org.jdom.Element. That is why i approched to org.jdom.NameSpace. But iam not getting the way, how to set org.jdom.NameSpace in setAttribute method of org.jdom.Element object. I tried several ways but it is not comming.
can any budy help me please.
thanks to one and all.

Answer 1

Hi Marc
I solved the problem
Actually the oRootElement.toString was returning me only the string and not the
XML formatted String eg:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response id="2"><apartment id="1"/><clips><clip><id>1</id><timeStamp>2000000</timeStamp><size>100</size></clip><clip><id>2</id><timeStamp>4000000</timeStamp><size>200</size></clip></clips></response>
So the very first tag was missing <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> when i used element.toString();
But now i used StreamResult and Transformer
which gives me the same XMl format as i want and it works fine with both
JRE1.4 and JRE1.5
Thank you
Geetanjalee