XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Steve Loughran wrote:
> 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.

That's not a legal QName. It is namespace well-formed XML because 
:Localname is not a name, but there's no way the string :Localname can 
be treated as a QName.

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