[jdom-interest] XmlOutputter - printNamespace - NO_NAMESPACE outputs xmlns="", bug?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:36 AM +0200 7/5/03, Eric VERGNAUD wrote:

>Would someone on this list be less happy if dummies are more happy ?
>

Yes. What you're asking makes the API more complex. It makes it 
harder to explain. It makes it less consistent. It is unneeded by 
almost everyone who uses JDOM. It is a completely different model of 
namespaces than what JDOM uses now. Adding an option here would make 
JDOM's internals more complicated, less robust, and more buggy. It 
helps users do the wrong thing, and encourages them to misunderstand 
and misuse namespaces. It's a lose-lose situation. It's a very bad 
idea, and it isn't going to happen.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
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