Re: RE: [xml-dev] JAXP's ID Transform failing to include namespace de claration attributes

1/7/2002 4:53:57 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold <> wrote:


>That's only part of the problem though. Namespaces are also nasty, 
>and that's purely DOM's fault. I can use namespaces to produce a 
>document that can't be serialized without any DTD. And it possible to 
>avoid this. JDOM and XPath 1.0 both do not allow the namespace 
>declarations to get out of sync with the namespaces actually used.

FWIW, DOM Level 3 will have a mother-of-all-normalize method to
put in declarations as appropriate to make the tree well-formed after
it has been mutated.