Newbie. Default Namespace dosen't work? WebDav.

[John Hall]

My company is using Xerces 1.2.3 (J) for its XML parser.  We are implementing WebDav.   The parser calls my function when a new element is encountered: ‘startElement( String p_namespaceName, String p_localName, String raw, Attributes p_attrs)   When I use the following XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <propfind xmnls="DAV:" >   <prop>     <creationdate/>   </prop> </propfind>   I expect “p_namespaceName” to be “DAV:” for “prop”, “creationdate” and “propfind”, because I have declared the default namespace “xmnls=”DAV:”.  However, my system is giving me an empty string for the namespace.  So I can’t tell whether a default namespace was correctly used, or the element is a part of the null namespace (which would be illegal).   Is this a known problem, or is there something I should be doing differently?