[jdom-interest] Namespace prefixes

[Brett McLaughlin]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> What are the current plans for the Namespace class? In particular, is it
> going to be revised at some point so that prefixes are maintained as
> well as URIs? I know I was initially strongly in the camp that this

Yes - absolutely. It just hasn't been done yet.

> wasn't necessary, but I'm afraid Simon convinced me otherwise. Namespace
> prefixes in attribute values are just too common. :-(

;-)  Your XML-ness came head-to-head with my practicalness (which it
appears was shared by Simon) - glad to see you agree with that point!

> 
> I don't need this functionality immediately, and if it is a goal to
> maintain prefixes then I have a few ideas about how to fix the Namespace
> class to do that; but I do need to know what to tell my audience at

Cool. They would be welcome.

> XMLDevCon next week.

Tell them it's coming ;-)

-Brett

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