Hi, I test it again but it's the same behaviuor. One question for me is in the AbstractSaxParser.startElement(param...) there is first the "Qname" and the "XMLAttributes" as parameters. Once I reached this point in debug mode and look into the attributes of the qualified name "xml:space" the prefix and the uri are null.
Inside the method is the following code part: if (!fNamespacePrefixes) { for (int i = len - 1; i >= 0; --i) { attributes.getName(i, fQName); if ((fQName.prefix == XMLSymbols.PREFIX_XMLNS) || (fQName.rawname == XMLSymbols.PREFIX_XMLNS)) { // remove namespace declaration attributes attributes.removeAttributeAt(i); } } } else if (!fXMLNSURIs) { for (int i = len - 1; i >= 0; --i) { attributes.getName(i, fQName); if ((fQName.prefix == XMLSymbols.PREFIX_XMLNS) || (fQName.rawname == XMLSymbols.PREFIX_XMLNS)) { // localpart should be empty string as per SAX documentation: // http://www.saxproject.org/?selected=namespaces fQName.prefix = ""; fQName.uri = ""; fQName.localpart = ""; attributes.setName(i, fQName); } } } In this part only "xmlns" prefixes are processed but where is the part for "xml"? Is the "xml" namespace part standard and must not be processed like the other namespaces? A further question is, is it necessary to set in the namespace of the digester "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"? Thanks for the fast replay of my last question!!!!! Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Markus Kopf Robert Bosch GmbH Diesel Gasoline Systems Postfach 30 02 40 70442 Stuttgart GERMANY www.bosch.com Tel. +49 711 81138551 Mobil +49 151 10860465 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sitz: Stuttgart, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 14000 Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Hermann Scholl; Geschäftsführung: Franz Fehrenbach, Siegfried Dais; Bernd Bohr, Rudolf Colm, Gerhard Kümmel, Wolfgang Malchow, Peter Marks; Volkmar Denner, Uwe Raschke, Peter Tyroller