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Roy T. Fielding commented on JCR-241: ------------------------------------- Jukka's comment is right on the mark. It is typical for XML documents to have one namespace declaration with an empty prefix, frequently for the sake of backwards compatibility with tools that do not understand namespaces at all. It is also common for people to import XML that has no declared namespaces and then want to go in and add namespaces to those elements after the fact. So, I'd say we need the ability to assign the empty prefix to a namespace and also the ability to change the namespace of individual names even if they have no current namespace assigned. I don't know if Jackrabbit already supports those idioms, but they are so common that we will need to support them regardless of the specs. > Remapping the default namespace > ------------------------------- > > Key: JCR-241 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-241 > Project: Jackrabbit > Type: Wish > Reporter: Jukka Zitting > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.0 > > I'm not sure if this is a bug, feature or standard behaviour, but currently > it is not possible to remap the default namespace to some other prefix. The > following code throws a NamespaceException: > session.setNamespacePrefix("foo", ""); > At least the Session.setNamespacePrefix() javadoc doesn't seem to prohibit > changing the prefix of the default namespace and I couldn't find anything > more specific in the JCR specification document. Restrictions are only placed > on remapping the xml namespace. > Note that the current nodetype code is actually relying on the default > namespace being mapped to the empty prefix, so changing this would require > small changes there as well. > I haven't really run into any cases where I'd have needed such functionality, > but it would be nice to clarify this issue. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
