Andreas Hartmann wrote:
Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Andreas Hartmann wrote:
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Nono: what's explained here is that some parsers may not report the qName if their namespace-prefixes property is false. The ContentHandler.startElement() javadoc clearly states that the namespaceURI *is never null* !
Passing null namespace URIs is a well known source or crashes for Xalan :-/
Great, thanks for the info!
Does that mean that the empty string is not allowed as a namespace URI?
<foo:bar xmlns:foo=""/>
Aha, good question!
The namespace spec [1] states that the namespace URI "should have the characteristics of uniqueness and persistence". The empty string doesn't seem explicitely forbidden, but I'm not sure it has the required characteristics :-)
Sylvain
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-decl
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