What is a Namespace

Overview

The JCR specification introduces the Namespace concept (taken from the XML similar concept) to allow people register their own set of nodetypes and to be sure that those could be imported in several repositories without any conflicts.

Hence we highly advise you to create a new namespace for your company/organization as soon as you wish to create new content structure which means new NodeType and associated dialog and view templates.

Adding a new namespace through the ECM admin user interface is very simple. First you will be able to reach the namespace list which by default contains only system namespace that are imported at the very first time the platform is launched. Then to add namespace you simply need to provide an alias and a mapped URI. Note that as for the XML namespace the URI does not need to be a real location, it just has to be unique.

Now, everytime you will try to add a new NodeType you will be able to select your namespace from a select list.

When a part of the JCR tree will be exported as XML content, Namespaces will be used as XML ones.

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