XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <erharold AT gmail.com>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> I think you're correct that when Saxon creates a DOM view of an underlying
> Saxon tree, the attribute node that represents the xmlns="xyz" declaration
> has a null namespace URI, whereas the DOM specifications strongly suggest
> that it should have a namespace URI of "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/";. The
> reason for this rule escapes me completely, but it's what DOM says.

It escapes me too. To make matters worse, this rule is inconsistent with 
the clear language of Namespaces in XML 1.0, 1st edition, and with SAX 2.0.

The second edition of Namespaces in XML rewrote history to align with 
the DOM model but SAX (and XOM) still adhere to the original, 
no-namespace approach.

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