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Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?

From: Wolfgang Hoschek <wolfgang.hoschek AT mac.com>
To: Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com>
Cc: 'Elliotte Harold' <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>, 'xom-interest' <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:17:07 -0800

On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Michael Kay wrote:

javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext

I don't think I want to introduce an external dependency on
that class
since it wasn't a standard part of the JDK until 1.5, and there's
probably some silly legal reason I can't ship it bundled into XOM.

And if you need another reason, it's a very poorly designed interface,
offering no method to find out all the namespaces that are in scope.

Yes, I only realized how poorly designed that interface really is until I had to implement it and XMLStreamReader as part of the "make a XOM tree appear as a STAX pull parser" effort. the javax.*.QName is rather poor as well. Don't go there unless you have to.

Wolfgang.

[XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Steve Loughran, 01/05/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Nils Kilden-Pedersen, 01/05/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Wolfgang Hoschek, 01/05/2006
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  - Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Steve Loughran, 01/23/2006
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Elliotte Harold, 01/23/2006
      - Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Michael Kay, 01/23/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Wolfgang Hoschek, 01/23/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Steve Loughran, 01/23/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Elliotte Harold, 01/23/2006
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Wolfgang Hoschek, 01/23/2006
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Elliotte Harold, 01/23/2006
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Wolfgang Hoschek, 01/23/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Elliotte Harold, 01/23/2006
        
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        [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why is Element.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Steve Loughran, 01/24/2006
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why isElement.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Michael Kay, 01/24/2006
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why isElement.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Elliotte Harold, 01/24/2006
        Re: [XOM-interest] Element. // Used for XPath and serialization Why isElement.getNamespacePrefixesInScope() private?, Michael Kay, 01/24/2006