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Re: DOCTYPE and namespaces via DOM

• To: Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@e...>
• Subject: Re: DOCTYPE and namespaces via DOM
• From: Elena Litani <elitani@c...>
• Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:50:38 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10310151147110.28828-100000@gris>

Gregory Murphy wrote:
> All good and well. If I add a document type declaration to the same
> document, i.e.
> 
>     <!DOCTYPE xc:cursors>
>     <xc:cursors xmlns:xc="http://docs.sun.com/xmlcursor">
> 
> the root node data changes to
> 
>     node.getNodeName() = "xc:cursors"
>     node.getLocalName() = null
>     node.getPrefix() = null
>     node.getNamespaceURI() = null 

Are you sure you are accessing the root element..?  Seems like you are
looking at a DOCTYPE node...

> The presence of the document type declaration appears to shut off
> namespace processing. Is this expected behavior? Does it make sense?

No, it does not make much sense: Xerces does not turn off namespace
processing. 

If you think there is a bug in Xerces code, please send a message to the
xerces-j-user@x... mailing list providing a sample program to
reproduce the bug.

Thank you,
-- 
Elena Litani / IBM Toronto

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