In an effort to become more compliant with the W3C DOM specification, we
are planning to make changes that may require action on your behalf. The
current behavior of the WTP implementation of org.w3c.dom.Element returns
null for getAttribute(String) and getAttributeNS(String) if the attribute
value is not specified. After the change, calls to these methods will
return an empty string if the attribute value is not specified. This
change is required to comply with the interface, and will correct various
NullPointerExceptions when EMF is used with our DOM implementation and the
EMF code is undeniably correct.
What is required?
If your code was depending on the DOM returning null to indicate a missing
attribute, the code should be changed to hasAttribute(String) or
hasAttributeNS(String) before obtaining the value.
When will this change be implemented?
During Milestone 3 of WTP 3.2.
Where can I find more information?
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=272378
Thanks,
Nick
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