XQuery template in MarkLogic doesn't show any values, only attributes (TDE)

Question

I've created a .xml-file and a template to extract some data, but only the attributes show up.

This is my .xml-testfile:

<user id="1234" email="test.user@live.com" password="1234">
<type>Human</type>
<notes>
    <note reference="5432" id="753" xmlns="http://testnamespace.de/note">
        <text>example</text>
        <username>John Doe</username>
        <groups>
            <group id="42">Avengers</group>
            <group id="55">JLA</group>
        </groups>
        <distinctiveTitle>title</distinctiveTitle>
        <personNameInverted>Doe John</personNameInverted>
    </note>
</notes>

and here the corresponding template:

import module namespace tde = "http://marklogic.com/xdmp/tde" at "/MarkLogic/tde.xqy";
declare namespace testns = "http://testnamespace.de/note";

let $userNoteTDE:=
<template xmlns="http://marklogic.com/xdmp/tde" xmlns:testns="http://testnamespace.de/note">
    <context>/user/notes/testns:note</context>
    <rows>
        <row>
            <schema-name>user</schema-name>
            <view-name>notes</view-name>
            <columns>
                <column>
                    <name>reference</name>
                    <scalar-type>string</scalar-type>
                    <val>@reference</val>
                    <nullable>true</nullable>
                    <default>""</default>
                </column>
                <column>
                    <name>id</name>
                    <scalar-type>string</scalar-type>
                    <val>@id</val>
                    <nullable>true</nullable>
                    <default>""</default>
                </column>
                <column>
                    <name>text</name>
                    <scalar-type>string</scalar-type>
                    <val>text</val>
                    <nullable>true</nullable>
                    <default>""</default>
                </column>
                <column>
                    <name>username</name>
                    <scalar-type>string</scalar-type>
                    <val>username</val>
                    <nullable>true</nullable>
                    <default>""</default>
                </column>
                <column>
                    <name>distinctiveTitle</name>
                    <scalar-type>string</scalar-type>
                    <val>distinctiveTitle</val>
                    <nullable>true</nullable>
                    <default>""</default>
                </column>
                <column>
                    <name>personNameInverted</name>
                    <scalar-type>string</scalar-type>
                    <val>personNameInverted</val>
                    <nullable>true</nullable>
                    <default>""</default>
                </column>
            </columns>
        </row>
    </rows>
</template>

I changed the context to use the correct (?) path and the namespace (because this part should be nested into another template):

<context>/user/notes/testns:note</context>

If I check the template with tde:node-data-extract(fn:doc ( TESTFILE PATH ), $userNoteTDE) I get the following output:

    {
"TESTFILE PATH": [
  {
    "row": {
     "schema": "user", 
     "view": "notes", 
     "data": {
      "rownum": "1", 
      "reference": "5432", 
      "id": "753", 
      "text": "", 
      "username": "", 
      "distinctiveTitle": "", 
      "personNameInverted": ""
     }
    }
   }
  ]
 }

This shows, that the attributes are displayed correctly, but somehow the values (text, username, distinctiveTitle, personNameInverted) of the elements do not work. My guess is, that the values need a more refined path or expression, but I can't find any information. If I change the text value for example to <val>testns:text</val> in my template, I get the error: XDMP-UNBPRFX: (err:XPST0081) Prefix testns has no namespace binding

So somehow the elements can't use the declared namespace, but the attributes can.

Also I skipped the <groups> section in my template, because they would need a context on their own, that shouldn't matter, should it?

Thanks in advance for any helpful insight!

Answer 1

The MarkLogic Support gave me the answer for this problem, so I want to share it here!

(Thanks Chris Hamlin!)

It was indeed a namespace problem. The MarkLogic Documentation shows that for multiple namespaces "path-namespaces" should be used.

After declaring

...

    <path-namespaces>
        <path-namespace>
            <prefix>testns</prefix>
            <namespace-uri>http://testnamespace.de/note</namespace-uri>
        </path-namespace>
    </path-namespaces>

...

between template and context , and using the testns prefix on my elements like testns:text , the elements are being correctly displayed!