Try invoking :
th.startDocument()
th.startPrefixMapping(...)
...//Start inserting xml
th.endDocument()
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 8:24 PM
Subject: Help creating XML and namespaces...
> Hi,
>
> I'm converting an application from using JDOM to SAX because I can no
> longer afford to have the whole XML in memory.
>
> From what I can understand, the best way of generating XML is to use a
> JAXP Transformer. However when I do this, namespaces don't seem to be
> generated properly. Also, for no apparent reason, when reading the
> resulting XML back into JDOM, I get various errors, including "Content
> is not allowed in prolog" and "Prefix is not bound".
>
> What I would expect in the output is something like....
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <package:package
>
xmlns:package="http://preservation.naa.gov.au/package/1.0";></package:package
>
>
> But what I get is....
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <package:package></package:package>
>
> However, the resulting output and header looks well-formed, and thus the
> "Content is not allowed in prolog" seems inexplicable.
>
> My code looks something like this...
> SAXTransformerFactory tf =
> (SAXTransformerFactory)SAXTransformerFactory.newInstance();
> TransformerHandler th = tf.newTransformerHandler();
> OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
> StreamResult streamResult = new StreamResult(out);
> th.setResult(streamResult);
> AttributesImpl att = new AttributesImpl();
> th.startElement("http://preservation.naa.gov.au/package/1.0";, "package",
> "package:package", att);
> th.endElement("http://preservation.naa.gov.au/package/1.0";, "package",
> "package:package");
>
> Is this the correct way to generate XML?
>
> Why aren't namespaces working?
>
>
>
>
>
