[jdom-interest] Losing namespace with JDOM

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 8:52 AM -0700 9/5/02, Bhalchandra Patil wrote:
>Hello JDOM,
>I am facing a strange problem.
>I have a xml document which contains/use multiple
>namespaces. If i transform the document using JDOM,
>some of the attributes lose their namespaces. The
>input document has the namespaces declared at the
>(first) element level. If the input document contains
>the namespaces declaration at the top i.e. as
>attributes of the root element, then the problem
>doesnot occur.
>Also if i perform xml transformation, without using
>JDOM, the problem doesnot occur.
>Is this a bug?
>

It may be a bug in JDOM, but more likely it is a bug in your 
understanding of namespaces. You do know that unprefixed attributes 
are never in any namespace, right?  Without example code and 
demonstrations of the possible bug, there is little we can do to help 
you.
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