[MOBY-dev] namespaces in Moby (and generally)

[Paul Gordon]

The moby namespace is defined here:

http://biomoby.open-bio.org/CVS_CONTENT/moby-live/Docs/MOBY-S_API/InputMessage.html

So Ivan's is incorrect as far as I can see...no disrespect to the 
Spanish.  I've noticed they have the most inconsistencies with the API, 
but that's because they are also producing most of the services that 
actually work! :-)  It'd be great if we could all get together again 
some time, now that we have a lot of clients and servers, and work out 
these interoperability kinks more efficiently...

Martin Senger wrote:
> Hi all (and perhaps especially Paul),
>   I am unsure if I am doing namespace things properly in jMoby. Perhaps
> somebody can enlighten me on the topic. Thanks in advance.
>   When I am parsing a moby XML I assume that the elements and attributes
> either do not have any namespace attached, or that they have the namespace
> exactly like this: http://www.biomoby.org/moby.
>   But I have this namespace hard-coded (actually taken from one of Paul's
> classes in jMoby). Is this correct, or should I rather read the parsed
> XML, and find there the namespace definition (in this case in the MOBY
> element:
>
>    <moby:MOBY xmlns:moby='http://www.biomoby.org/moby'>...
>
> and to use the string that is defined there? For example, recently I was
> in a discussion with Ivan from INB, his message started as:
>
>    <moby:MOBY xmlns:moby='http://www.biomoby.org/moby-s'>...
>
>    Thanks and with regards,
>    Martin
>
>