[jdom-interest] Namespace issues, et al.

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

Malachi,

1. I'm sorry, but you're wrong. You're wrong in Namespaces 1.0. 
You're wrong in Namespaces 1.1. What's going on here has nothing to 
do with which version of the spec you're using. I understand your 
confusion. I have seen it dozens of times before. The namespaces spec 
is a problem. It is not well designed, and it ti snot well written. 
This has led you and numerous other programmers to make erroneous 
assumptions. Eventually you will realize why you're wrong, but for 
now just accept that JDOM is not going to change in this respect.

2. You are also laboring under the misapprehension that the current 
version of XML and Namespaces is 1.1. It is not. It is 1.0. At some 
point in the future there or may not be a version 1.1, but even if 
that's true, that day is not today. Very few tools support the 
*draft* versions of XML 1.1/Namespaces 1.1 that have been released. 
In fact, I can only think of two that provide experimental support. 
Irregardless of the version though, unprefixed attributes are still 
not in the default namespace or the namespace of their element. Your 
confusion is not caused by what you think it is caused by.
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