XML::CommonNS - A list of commonly used namespaces

	# 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');

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.

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

uri

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

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

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.