<MapInfo> (XML Mapping)

This element acts as the container for all of the XML schemas and maps attached to the SpreadsheetML document.

Parent Elements

Root element of SpreadsheetML Custom XML Mappings part

Child Elements

Subclause

<Map> (XML Mapping Properties)

§3.16.2

<Schema> (XML Schema)

§3.16.4

Attributes

Description

<SelectionNamespaces> (Prefix Mappings for XPath Expressions)

Specifies namespaces for use in XPath expressions when it is necessary to define new namespaces externally. Namespaces are defined in the XML style, as a space-separated list of namespace declaration attributes

example: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <root>
    <branch>branch</branch>
    <a:root xmlns:a="http://myserver.com">
      <a:branch>a-branch</a:branch>
      <b:branch xmlns:b="http://yourserver.com">
        b-branch</b:branch>
    </a:root>
  </root>

Note: This is used when writing Xpath expressions at runtime against the XML instance structures, because the Xpath expressions use namespace prefixes instead of the fully spelled out namespace.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the XML Schema string datatype.

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_MapInfo">
	<sequence>
	<element name="Schema" type="CT_Schema" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
	<element name="Map" type="CT_Map" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
	</sequence>
	<attribute name="SelectionNamespaces" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
</complexType>