XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 7:26 PM +0100 1/15/03, Laurent Bihanic wrote:


> What bothers me more here is the behaviour of the methods 
> getNamespaceDeclarationCount() and getNamespacePrefix(): they do not 
> give access to the element and attributes namespaces.

I've thought about that. However, the real question is whether these 
methods should return namespaces in scope or namespaces declared. If 
it's namespaces in scope, then they need to return ancestor declared 
namespaces as well the attributes' and element's own namespaces. If 
it's namespaces declared, it may not include the attributes' and 
element's own namespaces, depending on whether those namespaces have 
previously been declared on some ancestor. Right now XOM is in the 
middle between those two.

I'm really not use what to do. Use-cases might help. Srrialization is 
the big one. What other use-cases are there, if any, for iterating 
through all of an element's namespaces? either declared or in-scope 
or additional?
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