[jdom-interest] output with namespace only on root element

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 12:48 PM -0400 6/9/03, tballen at copart.com wrote:
>OK.  I think the light bulb over my head just switched on.
>
>The child elements do not automatically inherit the namespace of my 
>*named* namespace ("cprt").
>Is that right?
>
>The example has <y xmlns:"http://foo.com">
>The z element inherits the "http://foo.com"> namespace *only* 
>because the <y> element does not have a namespace prefix.
>Is that right?
>

Pretty much. It doesn't really inherit anything except the namespaces 
in scope.  It happens that in the last example the namespace in scope 
for the empty prefix is http://foo.com
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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