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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Here is a suggestion... Solve lots of problems.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Remove public Element(String tag) constructor..... (also throw an exception if Namespace in Element(String,Namespace) constructor is null instead of reverting it to Namespace.NO_NAMESPACE).</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>;-)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Solve so many problems. Force people to be aware of how namespaces work, and to choose the namespace at construction time.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>In the ways of intuitiveness, this is THE MOST intuitive mechanism, nothing is "hidden" from the programmer.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>When people say "where has it gone?" we just say, "Well, every element in XML has a namespace, you have to tell us which one to use! ;-)"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Rolf</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Eric VERGNAUD [<A HREF="mailto:eric.vergnaud@wanadoo.fr">mailto:eric.vergnaud@wanadoo.fr</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 10:53 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Elliotte Rusty Harold; Bradley S. Huffman; 'jdom-interest@jdom.org'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] XmlOutputter - printNamespace -</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>NO_NAMESPACE outputs xmlns="", bug?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>le 3/07/03 13:59, Elliotte Rusty Harold à elharo@metalab.unc.edu a écrit :</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> At 7:09 AM +0200 7/3/03, Eric VERGNAUD wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> I still think there is a counter-intuitive behaviour with namespaces when</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> creating a document. When you write:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> JDOM always puts each element in exactly the namespace you specify.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> If you don't specify a namespace, the element doesn't get a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> namespace. I think that's quite intuitive.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Yes it does, it gets the null namespace, and loses the 'current' namespace.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Let's not be religious about this. I think this could be improved by</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>creating (in JDOM) a default PARENT namespace, so that when creating a new</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Element with no namespace, it would get -if any- the namespace on top of the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>namespace stack, instead of NONAMESPACE. Since this has backward</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>compatibility issues, it would require to set a pref somewhere in the JDOM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>initialization process.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Don't you think it's an idea ?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Eric</FONT>
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