[jdom-interest] Re: static data needs to be thread data for multithreaded applications

[Jason Hunter]

> At the time NameSpace was written,
> there was a lot of discussion about the static hashtables but 
> because nobody wanted to maintain parent relationships, there was 
> no way to put namespace information in the Document for any 
> given element.  It seems this has changed since then.

Elements can still exist unattached to a Document.

-jh-