So what you're saying is: 1) lock into Xerces serialzing and Xerces parsing ( for all clients ) 2) downgrade to an old version of Xerces
there hopefully is a way to turn off the namespace behavior? How does it change the document? Is there a way we could xslt it to clean it up?? fernando On Thu, 16 May 2002, James Bates wrote: > OK. I have a patch ready to commit that does away with TextWriter and > StringSerializer, and uses Xerces to serialize. > > However, the serializer in xerces 2 is a bit over-zealous and inserts > namespace binding nodes for any what it considers to be "undeclared" > namespaces... And Xindice's DOM implementation's representation of namespace > binding nodes are unfortunately not compatible with Xerces' idea of such > nodes. (The real problem here is that DOM doesn't foresee them, and so > everyone has more or less their own idea for adding "attributes" representing > namespace binding nodes...) > > Falling back to Xerces 1.4.4 fixes the problem (as 1.4.4 serializes only what > is explicitly present in the DOM). I can explain the details for those > interested if needed, but I want to keep this mail relatively short. > Bottom-line: my changes work only with the older Xerces 1.4.4, making them > largely undesirable (as one goal was to be independent of Xerces/XML parser > version). > > On the plus side, this does allow me to introduce the notion of an output > encoding selection switch in the command-line tools for retrieving and > exporting documents in encodings other than UTF-8. > > For example, the command > > xindiceadmin rd -c xmldb:xindice-rpc://localhost:4080/db/mycollection -n > somedoc.xml > -f mylocalfile.xml -z iso-8859-1 > > will write the result in latin 1, not utf-8. If the document contains > characters not representable in Latin-1, the serializer even writes escape > sequences (&#xZZZZ;) for them! Pretty cool :) > > Anyway, in view of the possible problems, again I'm wondering whether to go > ahead and commit, or maybe have a more serious think about all this first? > > James > >
