> Similarly, I think the XPath fails on this same regard. From a programmer's
> standpoint:
> /bookstore:bookSet/bookstore:book/bookstore:author
> seems unduly redundant, and they'd be right; why can't we say
> bookstore:/bookSet/book/author
> or even
> com.mycompany.bookstore:/bookSet/book/author
I find xpathDefaultNamespace useful for this :)
Certainly, but very few people outside the XML community know about this - for most people, when you talk about the default namespace, this is synonymous with the empty namespace, if they understand the principle at all.
Kurt Cagle
