[jdom-interest] Re: need help, namespace and XML

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 9:56 PM -0500 4/23/01, philip.nelson at omniresources.com wrote:

>There is no great way to do this other than a property setting or static
>property setter.  The checks are done in the static Verifier class so there
>is not an easy way to do this without it working that way for all uses
>within the JVM instance.  I would think that would make it undesirable as a
>general feature.  How often does this come up I wonder?

Not often, It happens, mostly in XML applications based on earlier 
working drafts of namespaces. I know of exactly one still used in 
production systems today. I don't think JDOM should support this. 
It's on the other side of the 90/10 split. Pretty early on we decided 
we wanted to be Infoset compatible, and documents that aren't 
namespace-well-formed don't have meaningful infosets. Most 
importantly, changing this would violate the simple story that all 
JDOM documents are namespace-well-formed. And finally, it would be a 
lot of work for a very small potential benefit.
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