XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <wolfgang.hoschek AT mac.com>]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 7:23 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Steve Loughran wrote:
> > How do I best go about moving xmlns declarations up to the  
> > toplevel so
> > they arent repeated? I.e, how to clean something like this up:
>
>
> I'd need to see the code that produced that to tell. I suspect just
> adding the relevant namespace declaration to the root element  
> should do
> the trick, but I could be wrong about that.

Serializers will supress superfluous namespace redeclarations, but  
from prior mails, it appears that Steve's usecases involve moving  
nodes around in-memory trees, without serialization in between.

It might be nice to have a method that reduces redundant namespace  
declarations by pushing them up the ancestor axis (up to the first  
occurance or all the way to the top), but then again, it's not clear  
what exactly the expected behaviour of such a method might be in the  
general case.

Wolfgang.