Sorry, but I forgot of course the following information:
The bug report adheres to the Xalan Java Version 2.2.0 - latest cvs.
Carsten
Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> after heavy searching I have found some namespace problems with
> the DOMBuilder!
>
> 1. If I use the JAXP Interface with a DOMResult object which gets
> a Document/Node objects in the constructor, the underlying DOMBuilder
> does not test whether this Document/Node supports namespaces or not!
> This results in DOM trees having DOM Level 1 mixed with DOM Level 2
> nodes!
>
> 2. The startElement() method tests itself which DOM Level is used
> by looking
> at the namespace parameter.
> This test is not correct. The SAX spec states, that if an
> element has no
> namespace (but namespaces are used) the namespace parameter is
> the empty
> string. The startElement() method assumes in this case that DOM Level 1
> is used instead!
>
> >>> CODE SNIPPET FROM DOMBUILDER <<<<
> public void startElement(
> String ns, String localName, String name, Attributes atts)
> throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
> {
>
> Element elem;
>
> if ((null == ns) || (ns.length() == 0))
> elem = m_doc.createElement(name);
> else
> elem = m_doc.createElementNS(ns, name);
> ....
> >>> END CODE SNIPPET FROM DOMBUILDER <<<<
>
> 3. The handling of the attributes of the element in the
> startElement() does
> not reflect the namespace handling for the element. Here
> again for each
> attribute the namespace uri is tested against the empty
> string. If it is
> the empty string, DOM Level 1 methods are used otherwise DOM Level 2.
> Again, this results in mixed objects!
>
> I'm not that familiar with the Xalan code, but I think the
> DOMBuilder should
> test
> somehow if the document which is used to append the new nodes
> uses DOM Level
> 1
> or DOM LEvel 2 in the constructor and from that one stick to this setting
> instead
> of doing tests everywhere.
>
> If someone can tell me a reliable method to test whether a Document/Node
> uses
> DOM Level 1 or DOM Level 2 I can make a patch for the DOMBuilder!
>
> Regards,
> Carsten
>
