On Sep 22, 11:03 am, Stanimir Stamenkov <s7a...@netscape.net> wrote:
> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:31:52 -0700 (PDT), /Steve/:
>
> > Thank you Peter, could you have a little more patience with me and
> > explain how I can instruct my processor  that gesmes equates to
> > "http://www.gesmes.org/xml/2002-08-01" and that the default namespace
> > (used for all element types that do not have a prefix) is
> > "http://www.ecb.int/vocabulary/2002-08-01/eurofxref"
>
> Have you tried to read through "Namespaces in XML"
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names>?
>
> You may find some tutorial like articles, also:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=namespaces+in+xml+tutorial
>
> --
> Stanimir

Hi Stanimir,

I have read through these tutorials but this is still not clear to me,
and I think from googling around that there are many people having
this problem with this particular European Central Bank XML document.
It is my understanding that the ECB document has already declared the
default namespace of elements that do not have a prefix, ie the <Cube>
elements, with the line :
<gesmes:Envelope xmlns:gesmes="http://www.gesmes.org/xml/2002-08-01"
xmlns="http://www.ecb.int/vocabulary/2002-08-01/eurofxref">

So how to access the <Cube> elements?

Regards, Steve.