Re: [Axis2][Axiom] Correct behavior for the getNamespace method

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 06:46 +0530, Ajith Ranabahu wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've found that the cause of numerous bug reports concerning the
> deserililzation of XMLBeans is actually an issue with the
> getNamespaceURI(int index) method of the pullparser where it returns
> null for the empty namespace URI. XMLBeans assumes the uri is never
> null but the reader implementations (including the wstx implementation
> that we use inside Axis2) return null for the empty namespace URI. I
> can work around the bug but this is one fine point that should get
> very clear about :)

+1 .. a difficulty with having multiple data bindings is figuring out
what works in what .. and who's fault it is when there's a bug :).

> The Javadoc for XMLStreamReader is silent on this
> (https://stax-utils.dev.java.net/nonav/javadoc/api/javax/xml/stream/XMLStreamReader.html#getNamespaceURI(int))
> but since the empty namespace is decalred with an empty string, I
> would say it should return an empty string rather than a null!

+1.

Sanjiva.