Get the value for xmlns from NSXMLElement iOS sdk

Question

I am working on iOS application and i want to get the namespace of a nsxmlelement.

my NSXMLElement *query has the following value in it.

<query xmlns="jabber:iq:roster" test="this is value">
<item subscription="to" name="test" jid="test@local"/>
</query>

I have used following code to get the xmlns but its not working

         NSLog(@"%@",[query attributeStringValueForName:@"test"]);
         NSLog(@"%@",[query attributeStringValueForName:@"xmlns"]);

Value for test is printed but the value for xmlns shows null

Please let me know how to get the value of xmlns

Answer 1

This is because xmlns is not an attribute. xmlns is a namespace definition. You can get it with [query namespaceForPrefix:nil].stringValue.