[jdom-interest] Checking for attributes without namespace in class Element

[stephan.segschneider at snellwilcox.com]

Dear all

I have just changed my code to work with JDOM beta 7R2. Everything works fine
but the new setAttribute() method in Element.
At the moment a checking for an already existing attribute happens only if the
attribute uses a namespace prefix (see line 1603 in Element.java). I don't think
that's sensible. In other words, you can't use setAttribute() to update an
attributes value if you use no namespace prefix. You always need to check inside
your code if an attribute already exists before you update its value.

In case I'm right with my view of how it should work I have attached a file
containing the changed setAttribute() method in Element.java file.
 

 

 Cheers,
               Stephan


PS: sorry for posting my message in the first place which was exceeding the size
of 64k
 
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