Solid namespace support is a much needed feature for data.xml.  There's a
ticket for it here: http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/DXML-4 though
unfortunately the patch attached to it came from someone who hadn't signed
a CA, so I was not able to accept it.
I am planning on tackling namespace support soon, but would welcome help if
you're interested (and have signed a CA).

-Ryan

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ben Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.o...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> TL;DR: I'm looking for a Clojure library that round trips XML+namespaces
> through Clojure data structures and back again.
>
>
> I'm hacking on a chewing-gum-and-bailing-wire solution publish my wife's
> novels as EPUB.  I've got most of a prototype of the core functionality
> working, but an stubbing my toe an a lack of what  would consider
> sufficient XML support in the Clojure universe.
>
> I'm consuming Apple Pages (heavily namespaced XML) and will need to
> produce XML Plist, XHTML, OPF and NCX, all of which are namespaced as
> well.
>
> My first prototype parser for Pages documents used clojure.xml and
> works, provided Apple never changes the prefixes they use for the
> various namespaces the crop up in a Pages document. This is because
> clojure.xml is absolutely namespace ignorant. Also, there doesn't seem
> to be a way to write clojure.xml out as literal XML.
>
> I'm in the process of switching to clojure.data.xml, but have discovered
> that it parses namespace aware by default, but only uses this in order
> to have a simple way to ignore namespace information without getting
> confused by spurious namespace prefixes.
>
> That would be fine for parsing the Pages document, but it's a
> non-starter for producing my output files since these require the use of
> namespaces.
>
> I've looked at hiccup, which would solve my HTML production problem,
> save for the fact that it produces XHTML 1.0 while my current
> half-manual publishing process uses XHTML 1.1. I expect either version
> would work, but that still leaves me without a solution for Plist, OPF
> and NCX.
>
>
> What are my best options? Am I overlooking a Clojure library that
> already does what I need? I could try to teach data.xml to support XML
> namespaces, but the current half-hearted hack which conflates Clojure
> namespaces with XML namespaces would have to go, I fear. I could instead
> put my time into extending hiccup to support XML more generally, or at
> least provide explicit support for NCX, OPF and PList. Should I just
> write my own library? Maybe I could build atop XOM so as not to reinvent
> the heavy lifting.
>
> // Ben
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