[jdom-interest] Reading the xml:base attribute

[Michael Kay]

> When all you want to do is search nodes, this is probably 
> true. But I only
> build JDOM nodes when I want to manipulate them and adding 
> elements or 
> attributes requires a instance of Namespace which I usually 
> pre-allocate with
> the prefix I prefer. So this situation does bother me. I 
> already have a
> instance of Namespace I can use.

I only search JDOM documents that someone else has built, so I don't have
any convenient Namespace objects to hand.

Michael Kay