XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 5:26 PM -0700 5/8/03, Kevin S. Clarke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting a blank namespace when I serialize a document. I want a
> default namespace that is not repeated on each element so I set it on
> root.  I also add another namespace declaration with prefix that I can
> use on deep children (with the URI also declared on the root element).

The output is correct. You have not put e1 through e4 in any 
namespace. Consequently the serializer inserts the necessary xmlns="" 
declarations. Given what the code builds I don't see any more natural 
way to serialize the document.

>         Element e1 = new Element("e1");
>         Element e2 = new Element("e2");
>         Element e3 = new Element("e3");
>         Element e4 = new Element("fake:e4", fakeNS);


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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
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