[jdom-interest] creating xml file fromjava object?

[Ross Merritt]

Can someone point me to the example that will show me how to take one xml
file and generate another or how to store a java object of as an xml file?

thanks
Ross
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Turner" <jeff at socialchange.net.au>
To: "jdom-interest" <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Inconsistancy in Namespace.hashCode().


> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:34:08AM -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> > At 2:45 PM -0800 2/28/01, Jason Hunter wrote:
> >
> > >Good eye.  I've changed the documentation on my local copy to be:
> > >
> > >      *  This returns a probably unique hash code for the
> > ><code>Namespace</code>.
> > >      *  If two namespaces have the same URI but different prefixes,
they
> > >may
> > >      *  have a different hash code.
> > >
> > >This correctly defines the behavior, and I think the existing behavior
> > >is correct.  Anyone (Elliotte esp) have concerns?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I disagree. I'm not sure when the mistake got in, but the
> > comment is correct (i.e. it describes the right behavior) and the
> > current code is wrong. Two namespaces are equal if their URIs are
> > equal. The prefix should not be considered when testing for equality.
> >
> > I suppose you can argue that two Namespace objects are not equal if
> > they describe different prefixes. Maybe that makes sense, but it
> > makes me deeply uncomfortable.
> >
> > I guess the question comes down to what the use case for comparing
> > namespaces is. I would expect that the equals method would let us
> > take two set elements with possibly different prefixes, possibly one
> > in a default namespace, and determine whether or not they have the
> > same type; e.g. are both MathML set elements or is one a MathML set
> > element and one an SVG set element? This only works if we compare
> > based on URI and not prefix.
>
> Hmm.. that's exactly the scenario I find myself in, having parsed a
document
> like:
>
> <e xmlns="foo" xmlns:gml="foo"/>
>
> I didn't see anything disallowing multiple prefixes in the namespace WD.
>
> Now I'd like the following to be true:
> ( Namespace.getNamespace("foo").equals ( Namespace.getNamespace("gml",
"foo")) )
>
> Does that match most people's expectations?
>
> --Jeff
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