[jdom-interest] Namespace and getChild()

[Schmidt, Chris]

Just out of curiousity, I was wondering why if you call
Element.getChild( elementName ) without explicitly passing a namespace,
why does JDOM assume no namespace rather than assuming the namespace of
the parent element ( the element you are calling getChild() against )?

 

It seems like that since when the XML is parsed, child elements that
don't have a namespace defined inherit their parent elements namespace,
that the getChild() method would behave the same way when not passing a
specific namespace in. 

 

Just my $0.02

 

Thoughts?

 

Chris Schmidt

Web Developer

ServiceMagic

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