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

Ajith,

Do you have a stripped down test that we can use to chase the woodstox
folks for a fix?

thanks,
dims

On 5/13/06, Ajith Ranabahu <[email protected]> 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 :)
>
> 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!
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> --
> Ajith Ranabahu
>
> PS - From a very quick test I've found out that the change occurred in
> the transition of wstx version 2.8 to 2.9  - wstx 2.8.* returns "" but
> 2.9.* returns null!.
>


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