[jdom-interest] JDOM && Jaxen

[bob mcwhirter]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> At 11:55 PM -0400 8/1/01, bob mcwhirter wrote:
> 
> 
> >Yes, to be accurate, it's purely namespace declarations I'm looking
> >for. 
> >
> 
> You can get this with JDOM, but you can't get it with XPath. To quote
> from section 5.3 of the XPath 1.0 specification:
> 
> There are no attribute nodes corresponding to attributes that declare
> namespaces

Wow.  

Now I'm completely confused.

Is the namespace:: axis then a set of all namespace mappings in scope
for a particular element?  Or is it the decls of namespaces on an
element.

Is the spec really saying not to expect to find namespace information
in the attribute:: axis?

	-bob