XML Parsing Problems with Namespace

[Guest]

A supplier generates XML code which an MX7 application needs to parse to convert to data on the CFM page.

The line <cfset myXml = xmlParse(theXml)> is used to obtain the code, which brings up the error:-

"The prefix "xsi" for attribute "xsi:type" associated with an element type "FAB_PkgAvailRS" is not bound."

This relates to the line in the XML:-

<FAB_PkgAvailRS Target="test" Version="2002A" xsi:type="FAB_PkgAvailRS"> , where the Namespace xsi throws the Parser.

What can be done about it.

If the xsi phrase is removed, it parses very easily.

Any help would be appreciated.

[insuractive]

Is your namespace defined in the document? If not, why not just remove the text "xsi:" ?

[Guest]

That's exactly what I had hoped could happen, but the supplier has informed me that the namespace is standard XML, which it is, and any XML Editor reads it without any problem, so that it has to stay in to correctly declare the following XML and I'm stuck with it.

So how do I parse the XML with that phrase included?

[insuractive · Accepted solution]

Which goes back to my first question - is the namespace prefix "xsi:" actually defined in the document?