Hi devs!
In OMElementImpl the namespaces hashmap is initialized to null by
default. This appears problematic. The XML-Infoset spec says inscope
namespace of an element info item must ALWAYS contain one entry for
'xml' prefix having the URI as "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/";.
(Refer to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.element and look
for [in-scope namespaces] property )
Because of this simple thing we are loosing out on a good number of
xml test cases from oasis where 'xml:base' kind of entries are
frivolously used without bothering to declare the namespce for xml
prefix explicitly.
The following simple additional line of code in the constructor(s) of
OMElementImpl should solve the issue and increase the XML test suite
conformance lot more.
//By default entry for 'xml' prefix is always present as a
in-scope namespace for every element
namespaces.put("xml", new
OMNamespaceImpl("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";, "xml"));
Thank you,
Jaya
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