XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Michael Kay wrote:

> I have come across XML vocabularies in which the presence of a namespace
> declaration for a particular URI carries semantics - such as telling you
> which version of the spec the document conforms to - irrespective of the
> fact that the prefix bound to that URI is never used within the document,
> either in element or attribute names or in content. 

I can't say I like that idea. However, if it became common (or at least 
not uncommon) I could probably be convinced to add a method to support 
it, isURIInScope or some such; but I think I'll wait till someone 
actually needs it. :-)

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