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

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