How to set namespace aware to false?

eclipselink, java, jaxb, moxy, xml

Solution

There currently isn't an option in EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) to tell it to ignore namespaces. But there is an approach you can use by leveraging a StAX parser.

Demo

You can create a StAX `XMLStreamReader` on the XML input that is not namespace aware and then have MOXy unmarshal from that.

package forum13416681;

import javax.xml.bind.*;
import javax.xml.stream.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Foo.class);

        XMLInputFactory xif = XMLInputFactory.newFactory();
        xif.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_NAMESPACE_AWARE, false);
        StreamSource source = new StreamSource("src/forum13416681/input.xml");
        XMLStreamReader xsr = xif.createXMLStreamReader(source);

        Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
        Foo root = (Foo) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xsr);

        Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
        marshaller.marshal(root, System.out);
    }

}

Java Model (Foo)

package forum13416681;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement
public class Foo {

    private String bar;

    public String getBar() {
        return bar;
    }

    public void setBar(String bar) {
        this.bar = bar;
    }

}

Input (input.xml)

Below is a simplified version of the XML from your question. Note that this XML is not properly namespace qualified since it is missing the namespace declaration for the xsi prefix.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.crossref.org/xschema/1.0 http://www.crossref.org/schema/unixref1.0.xsd">
    <bar>Hello World</bar>
</foo>

Output

Below is the output from running the demo code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
   <bar>Hello World</bar>
</foo>

Problem

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