You can have an element whose prefix is null, but is still in a
namespace. Why not try this?
Element text =
element.getOwnerDocument().createElementNS(element.getNamespaceURI(),
"text");
This should work in all cases, but please note that it does not set the
prefix of the "text" element.
John
Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>
> I've got a question about DOM programming I wanted to check for an upcoming
> article on using Java document models. It's not strictly XercesJ, but that's
> the
> implementation I'm using.
>
> The code needs to create a new element ("text") with the same namespace as an
> existing element ("element"). Here's the code I came up with:
>
> Document doc = element.getOwnerDocument();
> String prefix = element.getPrefix();
> String uri = element.getNamespaceURI();
> Element text;
> if (prefix == null) {
> text = doc.createElement("text");
> } else {
> text = doc.createElementNS(element.getNamespaceURI(),
> prefix + ":text");
> }
>
> Is there a simpler way to do this that I'm missing?
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> - Dennis
>
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