[jdom-interest] Re: Radical Suggestion

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 12:17 PM -0400 7/29/02, David Kavanagh wrote:
>Isn't it true that the getChild(ren)(String name, Namespace ns) 
>method will match any namespace when a null is provided for 
>Namespace? That is how I've been using it since I don't care about 
>namespace in my documents.
>

I think it does, but that aside can I ask why you're doing it this 
way? Why do you find it useful to ignore namespaces when matching 
elements? What documents are you processing, and which elements are 
you searching for in those documents?
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