[jdom-interest] Re: Very basic question about namespaces.

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:37 AM +0100 4/17/02, Bart Read wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>
>Just a quick query about namespaces.  Can't seem to find what I'm looking
>for in any of my books or on the web but somebody here is bound to know.
>
>We're using JDOM b8 in a messaging application that is used to transfer data
>between various organisations.  I have an element like this:
>
><spoxml:entity name="aaa">
>      <spoxml:parameter>
>       <spoxml:name>bbb</spoxml:name>
>       <spoxml:value>ccc</spoxml:value>
>      </spoxml:parameter>
>     ...
>     ...
></spoxml:entity>
>
>I want to extract the value of the 'name' attribute from the 'spoxml:entity'
>element, so do I use
>
>public java.lang.String getAttributeValue(java.lang.String name)
>
>or
>
>public java.lang.String getAttributeValue(java.lang.String name,
>                                           Namespace ns)
>
>to do it?
>

THe former.

>Is the attribute included within the 'spoxml' namespace because its parent
>element is within this namespace, or is it in the default namespace (i.e.
>would I need to call it 'spoxml:name' for it to be in the 'spoxml'
>namespace)?
>

Unprefixed attributes are never in any namespace. This is a 
fundamental rule of namespaces in XML.
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