Re: Urgent help required Node.getLocalName()

Right, still not an XSL question... even though you eventually use
XSL. You'll need to consult either the Xerces list, or the Xerces
documentation to find out what you are supposed to do.

I tried a little google action just to see if I could find a possible
answer to your question, so I queried "getlocalname null", here is a
link to the results page:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=getlocalname+null

amazingly (no joke, with that query I was amazed) the first hit
(http://www.mail-archive.com/cocoon-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg21176.html)
had this code:

path[startIndex].equals(item.getLocalName()!=null?item.getLocalName():item.getNodeName())

which suggests that null is an expected return value from
getLocalName(), and thus you should fall back to getNodeName().

This is still not an XSL question, so if this doesn't help please sign
up for the Xerces mailing list.

Josh

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:04:45 -0700 (PDT), Ranjan K. Baisak
<ranjanbaisak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Josh,
>          I think I missed to mentioned the real
> problem. It very much to do with XSLT. My stylesheet
> required some local namespace  and if it is null then
> it will throw error. So before doing transformation I
> am manipulating DOM object using Xerces api. During
> the manipuation I am getting the localname null so I
> need to set it some value, even if " ". As the
> document is very large and deals with some sensitive
> data so I would rather make it " "[space] or "No"
> which can make my stylesheet to work perfectly.
> Is that clear?
> 
> regards,
> Ranjan
> 
> 
> --- Josh Canfield <joshcanfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This is not the right place to ask that question as
> > it has nothing to
> > do with XSL. You also haven't said anything about
> > what language or api
> > you are using, but you might find that there is
> > another method that
> > will give you the name of the node, perhaps
> > getNodeName().
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:10:14 -0700 (PDT), Ranjan K.
> > Baisak
> > <ranjanbaisak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello List,
> > >           I need urgent help regarding
> > getLocalName()
> > > of Node. getLocalName() returns me null. I need
> > this
> > > method to return me not a null value. Is there any
> > way
> > > I cann change the local name so that I can get not
> > > null. I am manipulating a large document.
> > > This is an urgent help.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Ranjan
> > >
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