[jdom-interest] Re: Radical Suggestion

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 1:05 PM -0400 7/29/02, David Kavanagh wrote:
>I'm processing a document that uses a private schema. I put together 
>this dtd over 3 years ago and we've been building on it since. At 
>the time, there weren't any standard schemas that would do what we 
>wanted, and namespaces were a little immature. Since we don't mix 
>any different types of XML, I can igore namespace.
>

OK, if I understand you correctly your documents do not use 
namespaces. That's fine. There's no rule that says you have to, and 
lots of good XML applications like TEI and XML-RPC don't use them. 
JDOM fully supports your style of documents today.

However, this is very different from needing to match local names in 
any namespace. I suspect that if your program encountered a document 
in which an element with the same name had a non-null namespace URI, 
that should signal an error. You need to match elements in no 
namespace, not elements in any namespace.
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