Skip Headers

# TopLink Runtime Namespace Resolution

Previous

Next

It is common for an XML document to include one or more namespaces. TopLink supports this using its `NamespaceResolver`. The namespace resolver maintains pairs of namespace prefixes and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). TopLink uses these prefixes in conjunction with the XPath statements you specify on EIS mappings to XML records and XML mappings.

Although TopLink captures namespace prefixes in the XPath statements for mappings (if applicable), the input document is not required to use the same namespace prefixes. As Example: Namespaces in TopLink shows, TopLink will use the namespace prefixes specified in the mapping when creating new documents.

Namespaces in TopLink

Description of "Namespaces in TopLink"