Michael Ludwig <mil...@gmx.de> wrote on 04/08/2009 02:52:22 PM: > kesh...@us.ibm.com schrieb am 07.04.2009 um 22:03:16 (-0400): > > In the DOM, namespace declaration attributes are displayed as real > > attributes -- but are in fact optional in many cases. > > Thanks keshlam, and Nathan, for answering. > > > See current version of the DOM spec for discussions of Namespace > > Well-Formedness, Namespace Normalization, and normalization during > > serialization. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/namespaces- > algorithms.html#normalizeDocumentAlgo > > I think this refers rather to the question of which namespace > declaration attributes are required in order for a given document > to be namespace-well-formed. > > > In the XPath data model, namespace declarations are not considered > > attributes. > > Yes. And I was wondering if Xerces had a DOM parser option to not enlist > namespace declaration attributes among the ordinary attributes as in: > > NamedNodeMap nodeMap = elm.getAttributes(); > > If so, I haven't found it. Just asking because coming from LibXML2 > (which I'm not saying is the Specification Incarnate), I'm not used > to finding namespace declaration attributes together with straight > attributes when using the DOM parser. So maybe there is some switch > controlling that behaviour in Xerces?
There is one but you need to be using the DOM Level 3 LSParser [1]. Setting the "namespace-declarations" parameter to false on its DOMConfiguration [2] should do the trick. > Michael Ludwig > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org Thanks. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-LS-20040407/load-save.html#LS-LSParser [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/core.html#DOMConfiguration Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
