XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Steve Loughran wrote:

> But SOAPFault not the obvious payload. Whoever did that bit of the
> spec didnt fully understand namespaces, to the extent that the
> faultcode/faultstring/faultdetail elements under <soap:Fault> have to
> be local, not in the soap ns.

That particular bit if brain damage derives from the W3C XML Schema 
Language. They made that mistake because they were attempting to treat 
attributes and child elements as equivalent. Attributes are unqualified. 
Therefore child elements should be. At least that's what they were 
thinking. It's just one of many bad decisions made in that spec.

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