XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Steve,

I'm not sure, but there's one common quirk of handling namespaces in DOM 
that you need to be aware of to make things work. You need to do two 
things on the DOM side to make DOM reliably work:

1. You only use namespace-aware methods like createElementNS, even when 
creating elements in no namespace. You never use the non-namespace aware 
methods.

2. You also add Attr objects for the xmlns and xmlns:prefix attributes 
to the DOM tree. These are not supplied automatically as they are in 
XOM. These must be consistent with the namespaces actually attached to 
each DOM element and attribute. However DOM does not enforce this.

If you've done this, then we can look in XOM for a problem. But it 
sounds like you might be making a classic pure-DOM mistake. It's 
insanity like this that first inspired JDOM and then XOM.

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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