Re: Cross DOM implementation node importing fails for attributes in the xml (http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace) namespace

Natalia,

Thanks for the amazingly fast review and response.

Geoff Shuetrim


On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:42 -0500, Natalia Shilenkova wrote:
> Thanks for the patch, had problem code located in no time. This is now
> fixed in trunk.
> 
> Regards,
> Natalia
> 
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Geoff Shuetrim <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have been trying to import nodes from a Xindice DOM (produced from an
> >  XMLResource retrieved from the Xindice Database) into a DOM created with
> >  the Xerces parser.
> >
> >  This works well until I include attributes in the xml
> >  (http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace) namespace (eg xml:lang) but do
> >  not explicitly declare the mapping from that namespace to the xml prefix
> >  using an xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace".
> >
> >  When I do  include such attributes, I get the error message:
> >
> >  org.w3c.dom.DOMException: NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to create or
> >  change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces.
> >         at org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.checkDOMNSErr(Unknown Source)
> >         at org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrNSImpl.setName(Unknown Source)
> >         ...
> >
> >  I have attached a patch to the version of the Xindice code base that I
> >  checked out of SVN this morning that includes a new unit test that shows
> >  this behaviour.
> >
> >  Regards
> >
> >  Geoff Shuetrim
> >
>