[jdom-interest] Is JDOM dying?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:19 PM -0800 3/14/03, Malachi de AElfweald wrote:
>But I think he was right in saying that it is a representation issue.
>When reading the textual representation of XML, you see the ns attribute
>on the root element, and no others. So, you try to write your JDOM elements
>that way, and it doesn't work -- because JDOM adds another ns="" to the
>children... So, to mimic the textual representation of only having the ns
>attribute on the root node, you have to put it on all the nodes. Very counter-
>intuitive.
>

It's only counter-intuitive because namespaces are counter-intuitive. 
The way JDOM works is very intuitive to those developers who have 
grokked how XML namespaces work. Anything else would be 
counter-intuitive to those developers who do understand namespaces. 
JDOM is here faithfully modelling the counter-intuitiveness of 
namespaces. Yes, XML namespaces are a poorly designed mess; but we 
can't fix that in JDOM.
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