Create a new element with fully qualified element names(namespace) in Java

Description

The following code shows how to create a new element with fully qualified element names(namespace).

Example


 //w w w.ja  va 2  s . c o  m
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {

    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    factory.setNamespaceAware(true);

    DocumentBuilder loader = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document document = loader.newDocument();

    String docNS = "http://www.java2s.com";

    Element order = document.createElementNS(docNS, "order");
    System.out.println(order);
    document.appendChild(order);
    order.setAttribute("xmlns", docNS);
    System.out.println(order.getAttribute("xmlns"));
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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