[jdom-interest] Possible bug in SAXHandler when "namespaces"
feature is off
Jason Hunter
jhunter at servlets.com
Mon Jan 19 15:49:12 PST 2004
> 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...).
We support XML with namespaces. We support XML without namespaces.
What we don't support is colons in local names. Too many people
mistakenly try to use colons in local names *thinking* they're adding a
namespace. They're not, so we warn them off.
-jh-
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