While browsing the Abdera parser code I was wondering why FOMBuilder
overrides StAXOMBuilder#createOMElement, so I went looking for the
source of the method in the parent class and saw the following:
protected OMNode createOMElement() throws OMException {
OMElement node;
String elementName = parser.getLocalName();
if (lastNode == null) {
node = omfactory.createOMElement(elementName, null,
document, this);
} else if (lastNode.isComplete()) {
node = omfactory.createOMElement(elementName, null,
lastNode.getParent(),
this);
((OMNodeEx) lastNode).setNextOMSibling(node);
((OMNodeEx) node).setPreviousOMSibling(lastNode);
} else {
OMContainerEx e = (OMContainerEx) lastNode;
node = omfactory.createOMElement(elementName, null,
(OMElement) lastNode,
this);
e.setFirstChild(node);
}
populateOMElement(node);
return node;
}
Look at those omfactory.createOMElement calls: the second argument is
supposed to be a namespace and is always null! Does this mean that
AXIOM blithely ignores the namespace of the element the parser has
just encountered? I can't believe this is the case.
Is this the reason why we need to override this method, in order to
pass the correct namespace?
Thanks,
Ugo
