XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

John Cowan wrote:

> A quick look at Canonicalizer.java for XOM 1.1d5 suggests (and I
> haven't tested this) that it propagates xml:* attributes to children
> in both whole documents and fragments.  This is contrary to Canonical
> XML 1.0, which restricts such behavior to "when an XPath node-set is
> given as input and the element's parent is omitted from the node-set"
> (section 2.4, paragraph 2).

It could well be a bug.  This is all very new and I'm trying to figure 
it out as I go. There are definitely some surprises here. I'll try to 
see if I can cook up a test case to see if this is really happening.

> I haven't looked at XOM 1.0 to see if it has this problem also.

XOM 1.0 does not do any propagation of xml: attributes, so if it is a 
bug, it's only in the latest d release, and should be easily fixed.

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