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Generally namespace declaration applies to current element and all descending elements. If you need to use the same namespace both in model and view, then html tag is a good choice. Something like this:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:ai="yournamespace">
  <head>
    <xf:model>
      <xf:instance xmlns="">
        <ai:inventory>
          <product>Hello</product>
        </ai:inventory>
      </xf:instance>
    </xf:model>
  </head>
  <body>
    <xf:output ref="/ai:inventory/product"/>
  </body>
</html>

Keep in mind that if you use non-namespaced elements in instance and also use XHTML as your default namespace, then you need to redeclare default namespace with xmlns="", as in example.

Tambet 2010-04-06 08:00:13

Answer 2

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An XForms instance is an XML document in its own right, so you should include appropriate namespace declarations for every instance in your form:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:ai="http://example.com/"&gt;
  <head>
    <xf:model>
      <xf:instance>
        <ai:inventory xmlns="" xmlns:ai="http://example.com/"&gt;
          <product>foo</product>
        </ai:inventory>
      </xf:instance>
    </xf:model>
  </head>
  <body>
    <xf:output ref="/ai:inventory/product"/>
  </body>
</html>

There are some processors that will evaluate the XPath correctly if your instance is inline (rather than an external resource), but I wouldn't recommend relying on that behaviour.

Phil Booth 2010-04-06 13:33:20

Answer 3

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Both answers were corrected. However, I found that my issue was related to using the xsltforms xsl stylesheet to render my xform. when i switched to orbeon, everything worked fine.

2010-04-06 20:04:55

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