OMElement.declareDefaultNamespace() declares empty namespace for child element.
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                 Key: AXIS2-3156
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-3156
             Project: Axis 2.0 (Axis2)
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: om
    Affects Versions: 1.3
         Environment: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Java 1.5.0_11. Axis2 
version 1.3 (uses AXIOM version 1.2.5). 
            Reporter: Yechiel Mondrowitz
             Fix For: 1.3


When calling declareDefaultNamespace() on a parent node, AXIOM assignes a blank 
namespace on the first level's child element.  So if XML is passed to AXIOM 
that looks like this:

<outerTag>
    <innerTag>
        <node1>Hello</node1>
        <node2>Hello</node2>
    </innerTag>
</outerTag>

And then declareDefaultNamespace() of "http://someNamespace"; is called on the 
<outerTag>, the resulting XML will be this:

<outerTag xmlns="http://someNamespace";>
    <innerTag xmlns="">
        <node1>Hello</node1>
        <node2>Hello</node2>
    </innerTag>
</outerTag>

Notice the xmlns="" declared in the <innerTag>.  According to my understanding 
of XML namespaces, the <innerTag> and its child nodes will no longer belong to 
the parent namespace of "http://someNamespace";, since it explicitly overrides 
it with an empty namespace.  So <innerTag> and its child nodes will in fact not 
belong to any namespace!  Here is a small program to illustrate:

import org.apache.axiom.om.*;
import org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.util.*;

public class Test2 {
    public static void main(String [] args) {
        try {
            String xmlString =
                "<outerTag>" +
                    "<innerTag>" +
                        "<node1>Hello</node1>" +
                        "<node2>Hello</node2>" +
                   "</innerTag>" +
                "</outerTag>";

            OMElement elem = AXIOMUtil.stringToOM(xmlString);
            elem.declareDefaultNamespace("http://someNamespace";);
            System.out.println(elem.toString());
        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

The output of this program is this (I added line breaks in the XML for easier 
readability):

<outerTag xmlns="http://someNamespace";>
    <innerTag xmlns="">
        <node1>Hello</node1>
        <node2>Hello</node2>
    </innerTag>
</outerTag>

As you can see, the <innerTag> was assigned xmlns="" by AXIOM.

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