[jdom-interest] Namespace issues, et al.

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:44 PM -0800 2/23/03, Malachi de AElfweald wrote:

>If you try to create that document, you get one of two scenarios...
>1) every element says xmlns="http://www.temporal-wave.com/spec" 
>(thus, lots of overhead over the network)
>2) the top element says that, the next one says xmlns="", and then 
>everything inside that doesn't show xmlns at all.

You've either uncovered a bug in the Serializer or there's a bug in 
your code, probably related to misuse of namespaces. I strongly 
suspect the latter, but the former is possible. If you could show a 
simple test case we could tell you which.
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