<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Count one vote against, I use JDOM as a persistence mechanism for my Java Applications and there is not a single namespace in any one of the documents and I don't want to have to add one when I don't need any namespace related functionality.<br>
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/Phill<br>
IS Dept, Software Engineer.<br>
phill_perryman@mitel.com<br>
http://www.mitel.com<br>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Bradley S. Huffman" <hip@csa.cs.okstate.edu></b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: jdom-interest-admin@jdom.org</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">03/07/2003 16:22</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> To: Rolf Lear <rlear@algorithmics.com></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> cc: jdom-interest@jdom.org</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Rolf Lear writes:<br>
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> Here is a suggestion... Solve lots of problems.<br>
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> Remove public Element(String tag) constructor..... (also throw an =<br>
> exception<br>
> if Namespace in Element(String,Namespace) constructor is null instead =<br>
> of<br>
> reverting it to Namespace.NO_NAMESPACE).<br>
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> ;-)<br>
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> Solve so many problems. Force people to be aware of how namespaces =<br>
> work, and<br>
> to choose the namespace at construction time.<br>
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Hoooraaa, glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way :)<br>
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Brad<br>
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