XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT mercury.ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> What should convert(Attr) do with a DOM object that represents a 
> namespace declaration? i.e. where the name is xmlns or xmlns:prefix? 
> XOM does not represent such attributes as Attribute objects. Should 
> convert throw an exception here or should it return null? Does anyone 
> have a strong preference on this one way or the other?

Yes.  Throw an exception, for the same reason noted in my last post:
the user is doing the Wrong Thing.

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