[daisy] Namespaces, ID's and daisy

[Marc Portier]

Shane Starcher wrote:
> My question is, is there anyway to use the daisy java API to do this.  I 
> have not been able to find a way to create a document and specify it's 
> namespace.


What you are looking for is the method
   Document#setRequestedId("182784-myns")

http://cocoondev.org/javadoc/daisy/2.1/org/outerj/daisy/repository/Document.html#setRequestedId(java.lang.String)


the sequence in javascript-speek is then:

   var document = repository.createDocument(name, type, branch, lang);
   var id = "182784-myns";
   document.setRequestedId(id);
   document.save(false);


'setRequestedId' means as much as you asking the repo to please assign 
that id (inclusive namespace) to the document.

It will do so only if the requested namespace is not the one that is 
assigned to be managed by the repository itself (see <namespace> element 
in {DSY_DATA}/conf/myconfig.xml) - and throww an exception otherwise

The repository will automatically assign a namespace-fingerprint if this 
namespace is used for the first time. I however you want to control that 
fingerprint yourself, then you will need to properly register the 
namespace in the repository.

See the namespace-manager for that:

http://cocoondev.org/javadoc/daisy/2.1/org/outerj/daisy/repository/namespace/NamespaceManager.html

regards,
-marc=