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Mike Sokolov wrote: > Do standard XML tools provide a mechanism for handling XML documents > containing tags with prefixed names but no corresponding namespace > declaration? For example, if I'm given a document containing something > like: > > <related-article xlink:href="xxx" /> > > and the xlink prefix is never declared, should a parser (for example) be > able to parse this document if it's set up with namespace-aware=false? > And various followup questions (if so: what is the name of the > attribute? if not: what is the point of namespace-aware=false)? I think the Java DOM APIs can handle that: DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource( new StringReader("<related-article xlink:href=\"xxx\" />"))); System.out.println(doc.getDocumentElement().getAttribute("xlink:href")); On the other hand I don't think that browsers allow you to build a DOM that is not namespace aware. Opera has support for the DOM Level 3 Load and Save API but when I try to set the parameter 'namespaces' to false on the domConfig of an LSParser it throws a NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR exception. Other browsers do not support a configurable parser at all, you can only build a namespace aware DOM. -- Martin Honnen http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
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