XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Tatu Saloranta wrote:

> Apologies for wild speculation here, but one case I have seen myself (wrt. 
> sample svg documents) is the use of default attribute value definition to 
> provide the default namespace declaration.
> This seems like a convoluted thing to me, but is legal as per xml & xml 
> namespaces specs; and such a test is part of XMLTest test suite.
> Similarly one can provide default namespace bindings for explicit prefixes.
>
> Could this be what brings in the broken default namespace declaration?

Yes, that's why the namespace is appearing. The DTD provides a default 
attribute value. The tricky bit is why the default attribute value is 
%SVGNamespace; instead of the value of the parameter entity reference, 
but I suspect you're right about that too.

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