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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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 )?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Just my $0.02</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thoughts?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Chris Schmidt</span></font></b></strong></p>
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