XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Kevin S. Clarke wrote:

> writeNamespaceDeclarations(Element) in Serializer
>
> Is there a reason why the Element supplied to this method must have a
> parent?  I'd like to be able to pass in a top-level element that
> doesn't have a parent.

I suspect the reason this is the case is simply to test whether a 
namespace is already in scope, and thus doesn't need to be written here.

However, I don't think there was any deliberate decision to prevent 
people from writing parentless elements. It just sort of happened. I'll 
see if I can fix it.

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