[jdom-interest] Parsing a MODS-document with validation fails

[Bradley S. Huffman]

Which version of JDOM?  My first guess is it is something in XMLOutputter.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Thomas Scheffler
<thomas.scheffler at uni-jena.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if I parse a valid MODS document with XML Schema validation, JDOM changes
> attributes as it handles default values of schema not correctly (by ignoring
> the namespace).
>
> Here is a short code to demonstrate this:
>
> SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder(true);
> builder.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", true);
> builder.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", true);
> builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema",
> true);
>
> Document document = builder.build(new
> URL("http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/show_pretty/ac:111060/CONTENT/ac111060_description.xml"));
> XMLOutputter xout = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
> xout.output(document, System.out);
>
> Here is a result fragment:
>
> <name type="simple">
> <namePart type="family">Edwards</namePart>
> <namePart type="given">Stephen A.</namePart>
> <role>
> <roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm>
> </role>
> <affiliation>Columbia University. Computer Science</affiliation>
> </name>
>
> If you look at the original document you can see, that @type of name is
> "personal". The "simple" comes from the xlink XML-Schema that was included
> by the MODS-Schema. Therefor the result fragment should look like this:
>
> <name type="personal" xlink:type="simple">
> <namePart type="family">Edwards</namePart>
> <namePart type="given">Stephen A.</namePart>
> <role>
> <roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm>
> </role>
> <affiliation>Columbia University. Computer Science</affiliation>
> </name>
>
> If I use DOM from Java this is done correctly (but a bit ugly as it does not
> use the namespace prefix already defined).
>
> Could someone just fix this, please?
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas Scheffler
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