[jdom-interest] moving namespaces up

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 4:28 PM -0700 6/15/01, Vladimir Grishchenko wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Here is a dumb question but I need this functionality for my project.
>I looked briefly at JDOM api and couldn't find a way to do the following:
>
>Say, I have an XML doc stored as:
>
><root>
>    <A:child1 xmlns:A="FOO:"/>
>    <B:child2 xmlns:B="BAR:"/>
></root>
>
>I read it in via SAXBuilder and I want it to be outputted as:
>
><root xmlns:A="FOO:" xmlns:B="BAR:">
>   <A:child1/>
>   <B:child2/>
><root/>
>
>Basically I need all namespace declarations to be moved up, possibly
>changing prefix names if there's any prefix name collisions.
>

I doubt this will be a part of the JDOM 1.0 core. We used to do 
something like this, but then we were convinced that it was 
impossible to do in the general case because of the difficulty of 
recognizing when prefixes were and were not used in attribute values 
and element content.
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