> I think these things that I attempted are not too rare - having the XML go
> through different parsers and outputters. Transferring objects between VMs
> might also be something that people want to do, so I am not too sure if it
> is a good idea to check equality of namespaces by object reference.
I don't either, but I haven't followed the discussions and Java strings give me
a headache.
> You don't happen to have a code snippet around that does exactly that
> (Java)?
I don't do Java any more (see headache above). The xmltooling code underneath
opensaml-j, which I didn’t write, has helper routines that provide one way to
do it, and they appear to use a DOM3 LSSerializer:
public static void writeNode(Node node, Writer output) {
DOMImplementation domImpl = node.getOwnerDocument().getImplementation();
DOMImplementationLS domImplLS = (DOMImplementationLS)
domImpl.getFeature("LS", "3.0");
LSSerializer serializer = domImplLS.createLSSerializer();
LSOutput serializerOut = domImplLS.createLSOutput();
serializerOut.setCharacterStream(output);
serializer.write(node, serializerOut);
}
There's also a pretty-print version that seems to be similar to what you're
doing but not exactly the same.
-- Scott
