Version: 1.2.0.11

ID Namespaces

By default, python-stix sets the default ID namespace to http://example.com with an alias of example. This results in STIX id declarations that look like id="example:Package-2813128d-f45e-41f7-b10a-20a5656e3785".

To change this, use the mixbox.idgen.set_id_namespace() method which takes a dictionary as a parameter.

from stix.core import STIXPackage
from mixbox.idgen import set_id_namespace
from mixbox.namespaces import Namespace

NAMESPACE = Namespace("http://MY-NAMESPACE.com", "myNS")
set_id_namespace(NAMESPACE) # new ids will be prefixed by "myNS"

stix_package = STIXPackage() # id will be created automatically
print stix_package.to_xml()

Which outputs:

<stix:STIX_Package
    xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
    xmlns:myNS="http://MY-NAMESPACE.com"
    xmlns:stix="http://stix.mitre.org/stix-1"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
    id="myNS:Package-b2039368-9476-4a5b-8c1d-0ef5d1b37e06" version="1.2"/>

Success! The xmlns:myNS="http://MY-NAMESPACE.com" matches our NAMESPACE dictionary and the id attribute includes the myNS namespace alias.

Working With CybOX

When setting the ID namespace in python-stix, the ID namespace will also be set in python-cybox.