Sorry! the default uri for the prefix 'xml' should be
"http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"; and the line of code that
should be added in the constructor(s) of OMElementImpl is
declareNamespace( new
OMNamespaceImpl("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";, "xml"));
Thanks
Jayachandra
On 4/13/05, jayachandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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-- Jaya
