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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not sure if I'll get replies to this, so please
send me an responses.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am one step away from using schema to validate my
xml, xml that is generated by JDOM, but I have one last problem. I cannot
for the life of me figure out how to specify xsi:nil="true" as an element
attribute. I NEED this so that my incoming xml can specify to nullify the
data in my text node, because if I don't allow nulls, then types that are
specified as xs:dateTime for instance are rejected by the parser because it
assumes a date is there and won't accept empty values. I do not find it
acceptable to change this to xs:string.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, here is my sample code. I am no guru, and
am one step removed from the apes as far as my knowledge goes, so go easy on
me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>org.jdom.Element elem = new Element(
"SampleElement" );</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>elem.setAttribute( "xsi:nil", "true"
);</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's what I'd like to do. This throws an
exception because I'm not allowed to have a colon in the attribute name.
So I fooled around with setting the Namespace to xsi, and I won't bother telling
you what the exception was. I'm not even sure if "xsi" is a namespace, or
is a publicId or a systemId. Don't know. Maybe you can help.
But whatever it is, I need to know how to get it done with JDOM.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anybody help?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scott</FONT></DIV>
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