[jdom-interest] Possible bug in SAXHandler when "namespaces" feature is off

[Dennis Sosnoski]

Jason Hunter wrote:

>>If JDOM only supports XML+Namespaces (apparently the case) then it 
>>should say so up front. As it is now, JDOM claims to support XML. I'd 
>>certainly agree that XML documents which are not Namespaces compliant 
>>are a small minority, but that shouldn't be an excuse for 
>>misrepresentation.
>>
>> - Dennis
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>>
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>Dennis, I think the most accurate way of saying what JDOM does is this:
>
>JDOM's SAXBuilder does not support parsing namespaced documents or 
>documents using prefixes unless used with an underlying parser that 
>understands namespaces.
>
>For a while, before parsers supporting namespaces were common, we did 
>namespace handling ourselves.  A long time ago we decided that special 
>code wasn't any longer necessary and it simplified the builder 
>significantly.
>
>  
>
Unless the code has changed since beta 9 it looks like the correct 
statement is that JDOM *only* supports XML+Namespaces. The setName 
method for Element, for instance, treats ':' as an illegal character. 
This violates the XML recommendation.

I'm not saying that only supporting XML+Namespaces is a bad design 
choice - very few people are using XML-Namespaces these days - but it 
should be stated in the project description (at least in the fine print...).

  - Dennis