[jdom-interest] Namespace help

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>Thanks for all the clarification. I'm not sure if I stated my 
>problem clearly. I understand that if I want a namespace with an 
>element, I need to put it there. But in this case, I did not want 
>any and didn't put any in those 2nd level elements. So why is 
>Outputter still printing out xmlns=""? I didn't assign "" namespace 
>to those elements.
>

"" is not a namespace. It is no namespace at all, as per the 
namespaces spec. If JDOM didn't put them there, then they would 
inherit the default namespace from the root element.
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