XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 11:26 PM +0100 1/18/03, Carsten Karkola wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to print the following document with
> nu.xom.samples.XMLPrinter:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <test
>   xmlns="http://www.tu-dresden.de/bau/test";
>   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.tu-dresden.de/bau/test test.xsd">
>   <a>
>     <b>test1</b>
>   </a>
> </test>
>
> and I get
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <test
>   xmlns="http://www.tu-dresden.de/bau/test";
>   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.tu-dresden.de/bau/test test.xsd">
>   <a>
>     <b>test1</b>
>   </a>
> </test>

I've verified this bug and fixed it in my local source. Thanks for 
reporting it. I hope to have a 1.0d9 up tomorrow that incorporates 
this and several other things that I've fixed or changed recently.

> without the xmlns:xsi declaration. I think, the problem starts in
> nu.xom.Serializer in line 239:
>    String currentURI =
>     element.getNamespaceURI(attribute.getNamespacePrefix());
>    // I think, this is always false, because the call to
>    // getNamespaceURI() finds the Attribute NS and so is
>    // attributeURI equal to the currentURI
>    if (!attributeURI.equals(currentURI)) {}


That is true, though the sample program you cite did not actually use 
the Serializer, just toXML, However, both shared the same bug and 
I've fixed both. They now actually share more code than they did 
before.

Interestingly, the CanonicalXMLSerializer class did not share this 
bug. It had more careful namespace handling.
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