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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am wondering what is the suggested way of
building an XML document from fragments of XML.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The xml is returned from a remote server in
response to an XPath query - in particular there is</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a problem because the server does not return the
namespace prefix declarations in the fragment,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>which means the document builder throws an
exception</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Exception - org.jdom.JDOMException: Error on line
1: The prefix "erm" for element "erm:loco" is not bound.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to take the XML string and incorporate
or merge the fragment into an XML document</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in memory, and/or create a new one from
it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have access to the XML namespace bindings, but I
cannot see how I can tell JDom about these</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>without creating a skeleton document - and then I
cannot see how I can 'import' the remaining</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>fragment into the document.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed.</FONT></DIV>
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