Re: Namespace - Saving to a File

Hi Chetan,

On Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 7:45:09 AM, Chetan Raj wrote:
> I still have the following doubts....

>>> libxml2 is correct. The namespace associated to a node is a different
>>> thing from the namespace declared through the attribute xmlns on a
>>> node.
>>> The namespace you specify on the createDocument is the namespace
>>> associated to the document element node, not the namespace declared on
>>> it.

> When Iassociate a namespace to a document element, wouldn't that
> mean thatthe document element and all its children are under the
> scope of theassociated namespace. In that sense, doesn't the
> associated namespacebecome the default namespace for the element?

Not exactly. The DOM is one of the easiest way to handle XML document
but a DOM tree is not exactly an XML document. It's up to you to build
a "correct" XML document, the DOM gives you only some interfaces to
easily manage XML document in broad sense (also not valid).

> If theassociation implies the default namespace, then wouldn't it
> be betterfor createDocument to put the special xmlns attribute,
> while itscreating the document element?

It's not in the purpose of the createDocument to do that.

Bye,
  Paolo.
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