XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> The code to do this walking has to go somewhere, either in XOM or in 
> your program. Since this is a very unusual thing to ask, I'd much rather 
> the code went in your application than in XOM itself. The information 
> will all be there, so you can get to it if you really need it. It's just 
> going to take a little more effort to extract it.

Why is that unusual? Working with the URI alone and ignoring the prefix used 
in a document instance is just what XPath does and what XOM provides with 
getChildElement(name, uri).

So XOM (and XPath) provides me ways to access elements and attribute ignoring 
the namespace prefix used but to modify the document contents I have to either 
redeclare the namespace using an arbitrary (possibly conflicting) prefix or 
develop some low-level code to find the namespace declaration.

There should be a better way! (Maybe using XPath to look up namespace 
declaration in ancestor nodes. Any idea on how to do that?)

Laurent