XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Michael Kay wrote:

> (There are other weird things as well, for example LDML [1]: this actually
> *requires* the namespace declaration to appear on a particular element (one
> which doesn't use the declared namespace): putting the declaration on an
> ancestor element, or on a descendant which does use the prefix, isn't good
> enough. For this use case, the "declared namespaces" model is probably
> better.) 

XHTML is similar. It requires the namespace declaration to appear on the 
html element, and requires it not to use a prefix; though at least in 
this case the html element is in the XHTML namespace.

In fact, anything that uses a DTD such as LDML or XHTML is likely to 
have these sorts of syntactic restrictions on the placement of namespace 
declarations.

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