[jdom-interest] Attribute namespace

[Dennis Sosnoski]

Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't realized default namespaces don't apply to
attributes.

  - Dennis

Jason Hunter wrote:

> It's exactly as the error message says.  You have a namespace without a
> prefix (a default namespace) and are trying to use that on an attribute,
> which is not allowed in XML.  If an attribute has no prefix, it must be
> in no namespace.
>
> -jh-
>
> Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
> >
> > I've run into a problem with b7 and namespace handling. The situation is that I
> > want to add an attribute to an element with the attribute using the same
> > namespace as the element. I'm attempting to do this using code like:
> >
> >     Namespace ns = element.getNamespace();
> >    element.addAttribute("name", "value", ns);
> >
> > This appears to work okay when there's a prefix for the namespace, but when I
> > have an element like <gratuitous xmlns="http://www.gratuitous.org/a">... I get
> > an exception "org.jdom.IllegalNameException: The name "" is not legal for
> > JDOM/XML attribute namespaces: An attribute namespace without a prefix can only
> > be the NO_NAMESPACE namespace."
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong here or is this a bug in the error checking?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >   - Dennis
> >
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