[jdom-interest] Serialization problems - possible bug?

[Simon.Hall at transwareplc.com]

Hello,

I am using JDOM beta 8 and am validating xml documents against schemas.
In our system the jdom document is serialized as a member of another
object.
The problem is that when the containing object is deserialized, one of the
namespaces (adlcpNS) is missing.

Could the problem be caused because there is no element in the document
that is currently a part of the adlcpNS namespace?

The code I use to construct the document is as follows:

        Namespace defaultNS =  Namespace.getNamespace(
                    Constants.IMSCP_ROOT_V1_P1_P2_NS);
        Namespace xsiNS = Namespace.getNamespace(
                    Constants.XSI, Constants.XMLNS_XSI_NS );
        Namespace adlcpNS = Namespace.getNamespace(
                    Constants.ADLCP, Constants.ADLCP_ROOT_V1_P2_NS );

        // construct root
        Element root = new Element(Constants.MANIFEST);

        // add namespaces
        root.addNamespaceDeclaration(defaultNS);
        root.addNamespaceDeclaration(adlcpNS);
        root.addNamespaceDeclaration(xsiNS);

        // create the namespace location definitions
        StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer();
        buff.append(Constants.IMSCP_ROOT_V1_P1_P2_NS)
            .append(Constants.SPACE)
            .append(Constants.IMSCP_ROOT_V1_P1_P2_XSD )
            .append(Constants.SPACE)
            .append(Constants.IMSMD_ROOT_V1_P2_P1_NS)
            .append(Constants.SPACE)
            .append(Constants.IMSMD_ROOT_V1_P2_P1_XSD)
            .append(Constants.SPACE)
            .append(Constants.ADLCP_ROOT_V1_P2_NS)
            .append(Constants.SPACE)
            .append(Constants.ADLCP_ROOT_V1_P2_XSD);

        Attribute schemaLocation = new Attribute(Constants.SCHEMA_LOCATION,
                buff.toString(), xsiNS );

        root.setAttribute( schemaLocation );

        // add additional attributes
        root.setAttribute( Constants.IDENTIFIER, Constants.EMPTY_STRING );
        root.setAttribute( Constants.VERSION, Constants.INITIAL_VERSION );

        // create the organizations element
        Element organizations = new Element(Constants.ORGANIZATIONS,
defaultNS );
        organizations.setAttribute( Constants.DEFAULT,
Constants.EMPTY_STRING);

        // create the resources element
        Element resources = new Element(Constants.RESOURCES, defaultNS);

        // add the organizations and resources to the root
        root.addContent(organizations);
        root.addContent(resources);

        // create the new Document
        Document doc = new Document(root);


Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Simon Hall