Sounds good to me, add to it the ability for XPATH to default to the context element's namespace and you're really talkin. :-) --Evan
Edwin Dankert wrote: >> in the older versions of dom4j, >> >> we could use --> >> Doc.getRootElement().addAttribute("xmlns","http://www.w3.org/2001/06/grammar"); >> >> and this would make "http://www.w3.org/2001/06/grammar" as >> the DEFAULT namespace for >> the whole doc (whichwould apply to allthe child elemnts of the root.) >> >> Wondering if same can be somehow done for dom4j.1.6. >> > > This loophole has been removed from dom4j because it is seen as wrong > to treat namespaces as attributes, however maybe dom4j should have an > option to set a default namespace for an element and place child > elements in this namespace by default? > > Regards, > Edwin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user