NAME

XML::CommonNS - A list of commonly used namespaces

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
# import $RDF, $RDFS, $OWL, $DC
use XML::CommonNS qw(RDF RDFS OWL DC);
my %CONFIG = (
    Namespaces    => {                   
        rdf  => "$RDF",
        rdfs => "$RDFS",
        owl  => "$OWL",
        foaf => "$FOAF",
    },
    ExpandQNames => 1,
);
# or the uri() method
my $foaf = XML::CommonNS->uri('FOAF');
            
          

DESCRIPTION All you need do to use this module is import the namespaces you

want from the list below. All of those will then become available to you. They are XML::NamespaceFactory object and can thus be used both as simple strings and as XML::NamespaceFactory objects. See XML::NamespaceFactory for how that may help you.

I hesitated for a while before releasing this module. As a directory of namespaces that can't (and almost certainly shouldn't) be exhaustive, it implies editorial decisions and I wasn't certain it was CPAN worthy. However, after getting really tired of tracking down namespaces in every single small XML muning script I made, I wrote it for myself. After a while using it, I don't see why others wouldn't find it useful as well.

NAMESPACES

The currently available namespaces are listed below. Should you consider one worthy of addition (it needs to be common enough) please simply notify me. Those marked with a start are subject to change. I WILL change them when the corresponding specification changes.

            

              
              
XML             http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
XMLNS           http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/
XLINK           http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink
SVG             http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
XHTML           http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
XHTML2          http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2
XFORMS          http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms/cr
XMLEVENTS       http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events
DC                      http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
DC_TERMS        http://purl.org/dc/terms/
RDF             http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
RDFS            http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
OWL                     http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
FOAF        http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
REL             http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/
RSS1        http://purl.org/rss/1.0/    
COMMENTS        http://purl.org/net/rssmodules/blogcomments/
SYN                 http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/                
RNG             http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0
XSD             http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
XSI             http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
MATHML          http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML
XSLT            http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
XSLFO           http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format
SOAPENC11       http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/
SOAPENV11       http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
SOAPENC12       http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding
SOAPENV12       http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope
WSDL11          http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/
WSDL12          http://www.w3.org/2003/06/wsdl
            
          

METHODS

uri

            

              
              
Allows you to directly retrieve one of the URI objects without doing the import() dance.
            
          

AUTHOR

Chris Prather, <chris@prather.org> Robin Berjon, <robin.berjon@expway.fr>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003 by Robin Berjon

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.