[jdom-interest] Problems with default namespaces in Attributes

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 1:05 PM +0300 6/27/01, oskar.lonnberg at nokia.com wrote:

>I have some problems with default namespaces and attributes. If there is
>a default namespace (xmlns="...") defined for an element it should apply
>to its attributes also. The element namespace is retrieved correctly, but
>the attributes do not have any namespace defined. The code in the end should
>demonstrate the bug.
>

No. Default namespaces never apply to attributes. The namespaces spec 
is quite clear on this point. JDOM and the parsers it relies on are 
correct here.
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