RE: A colon is not allowed in the name

> Just wondering, if there is a way to disable the namespace 
> awareness while parsing the xml document, using 
> "javax.xml.transform.Transformer".
> 

I think some XML parsers probably still allow you to parse
non-namespace-aware XML, if you set the right switches. But
javax.xml.transform.Transformer is not an interface to XML parsers, it is an
interface to XSLT processors, and XSLT requires namespace-well-formed input.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/