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   Re: [xml-dev] DOCTYPE and namespaces via DOM

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Gregory Murphy wrote:
> All good and well. If I add a document type declaration to the same
> document, i.e.
> 
>     <!DOCTYPE xc:cursors>
>     <xc:cursors xmlns:xc="http://docs.sun.com/xmlcursor";>
> 
> the root node data changes to
> 
>     node.getNodeName() = "xc:cursors"
>     node.getLocalName() = null
>     node.getPrefix() = null
>     node.getNamespaceURI() = null 

Are you sure you are accessing the root element..?  Seems like you are
looking at a DOCTYPE node...

> The presence of the document type declaration appears to shut off
> namespace processing. Is this expected behavior? Does it make sense?

No, it does not make much sense: Xerces does not turn off namespace
processing. 

If you think there is a bug in Xerces code, please send a message to the
xerces-j-user@xml.apache.org mailing list providing a sample program to
reproduce the bug.

Thank you,
-- 
Elena Litani / IBM Toronto




 

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