[jdom-interest] Reading the xml:base attribute

[Elliotte Harold]

Jason Hunter wrote:


> In XOM I see Element(name, uri) but no way for the user to supply a 
> prefix?  Did you follow through on your earlier plan to just assume 
> people aren't attached to their prefixes?

XOM does not separate qualified names from local names. In XOM you can do

Element e = new Element("a:name", "http://www.example.com/");

and

Element e = new Element("name", "http://www.example.com/");

XOM's smart enough to recognize the prefix boundary. :-)


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