XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

It sounds like you have some elements that are in namespaces and 
elements that are not. Possibly you have some documents that use the 
XHTML namespace and some that are simply HTML without namespaces. XOM 
always preserves namespaces or lack thereof, unless you explicitly 
change them.

You need to stop thinking of namespaces as a function of which 
attributes appear where and think of them as intrinsic properties of 
elements. Moving an element from one document to another does not change 
its namespace any more than it changes its name.

In your own code and documents, you need to be crystal clear about which 
elements are in which namespaces and which elements are in no namespace 
at all.

There may be an additional issue pricking you in particular: TagSoup 
reports all elements in no namespace as being in the XHTML namespace 
whether they actually are or not.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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