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Legacy ID: #8773105 Legacy Poster: ldueck (ldueck)

I have a library module that looks like this: Module namespace lib = “http://mylibrary”; declare function lib:createElement( $tmpname as xs:string, $value as element()) as element() { let $elementname := $tmpname where (exists($value)) return element {$elementname} { data($value) } }; I import that module and use that generic function from many different main queries. For example in my main query... Let $elementname := “book” Return {$elementname} { lib:createElement(‘author’, $elementA), lib:createElement(‘title’, $elementB), lib:createElement(‘publisher’, $elementC), ... } returns me janedoe <title>merrychristmas</title> scholastic This works fine, however I run into an issue with namespaces. Each main query that uses this library function, needs to create elements with different namespaces. What I’d like to know is how I use a generic function like this, to produce an element with a namespace, without having to edit the library file and add the applicable namespace declaration? For example, if I want my result to be the following... indigo:book indigo:authorJaneDoe</indigo:author> indigo:titleMerryChristmas</indigo:title> indigo:publisherACME</indigo:publisher> </indigo:book> The only way I can get it to work right now is to include the “indigo” namespace declaration in the library module, and append “indigo:” to the start of “book”, “author” “title” and “publisher” strings. The library module shouldn’t have to be edited by every developer who wants to use the generic function with a namespace. I have tried editing the library function to add a namespace as an attribute but that didn’t work. Ie declare function lib:createElementWithNamespace( $elementname as xs:string, $namespacePrefix as xs:string, (“indigo”) $namespaceValue as xs:string, (“http://xmlns.acme.com/indigo”) $elementvalue as element()) as element() { let $attrName := concat("xmlns:", $namespacePrefix) let $elem := element{$elementname}{ attribute{$attrName}{data($namespaceValue)}, data($elementvalue) } return $elem }; Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,