XML Namespaces

XML Namespaces allow XML documents to use standardized "libraries" of tags and elements that have clear semantic meaning. We use several standard namespaces in our work, but have also extended them where appropriate and necessary for the project at hand. These namespaces are documented here.

Book Sense Bestseller List

When publishing the Book Sense Bestseller List using RSS, we have several elements that are relevant to the information we're presenting, but that do not have exact semantic understanding in either the Dublin Core or the base RSS protocol.

Java

Since the purpose of XMLFormatter was to be able to save data from Java objects that were out of our control, we could potentially run into Java classes that we would need to handle. This namespace is our representation of many standard Java datastructure classes, primarily the java.lang and java.util packages.