XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

Neither ":LocalName" nor ":" is a legal QName. 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

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> [mailto:xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Steve Loughran
> Sent: 05 October 2006 15:10
> To: xom-interest
> Subject: [XOM-interest] element.getNamespaceURI("");
> 
> I'm trying to resolve Qnames, and a fun one is when the body 
> of a message is something like
> 
> <something>:Localname</something>
> 
> that is, there is no namespace prefix. I'm not entirely sure 
> that is legitimat, but QNames are silly as it is, I dont want 
> to overturn the whole of the XSD type system just yet.
> 
> Assuming it is legal, and I have code to extract everything 
> before the prefix, will element.getNamespaceURI("") return 
> something sensible, or should I treat the :localonly qname as 
> a special case?
> 
> what do other people who handle incoming QNames do with such 
> corner cases as this, or, my favourite ":"?
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