XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Laurent Bihanic <laurent.bihanic AT atosorigin.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> Wouldn't it be possible to just read the prefix from one of the known 
> elements in that namespace? Would this solve your problem?

Yet, it just requires more code to walk up and down the document to find this 
node.

> Maybe, but it's going to take some more convincing. My current thoughts 
> on this are that at best, this is syntax sugar, and it's a nice bit of 
> sugar. I agree it's good not to unnecessarily use two different prefixes 
> for the same namespace. But using multiple prefixes should not cause any 
> problems if the document is otherwise correct.

Well, I think this method would help XOM to provide an XPath-like view of 
namespaces, i.e. make all the namespaces in scope accessible from any node.

Laurent