[jdom-interest] Anything else for beta 9?

[Bradley S. Huffman]

Jason Hunter writes:

> Last call.

"Bradley S. Huffman" writes:

> Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:
> 
> > At 1:11 PM -0500 4/6/03, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
> > 
> > >Right now SAXBuilder's default is to always set SAX "namespaces" to
> > >true and "namespace-prefix" to false, and you cannot change that.
> > 
> > I think that's wrong. It should set both to true in order to 
> > propagate namespaces in scope and additional namespaces properly.
> 
> Looks like it's been that way since beta 5 and hasn't cause any major problem
> s
> yet (key word being "yet). But thinking about this "namespace-prefixes" == tr
> ue 
> ensures the qname will be availible through startElement, otherwise it's 
> optional and I guess Xerces (and Crimson before) always provided it even
> though they didn't have to. So I guess we've been living on borrowed time.
> 
> Guess that should be fixed before beta 9.

Does this need to be fixed, change "namespace-prefixes" from false to true
in SAXBuilder? And does anyone have time to change SAXBuilder and give it
a quick test.

Brad