Namespaces in 20 lines (and dtd encoding)

[james anderson]

James Clark wrote:
> At first glance the new namespace draft might appear rather complicated,
> ...

at second glance too...

> String expandName(String name, Element element, boolean isAttribute) {
>   // ...
>   for (; element != null; element = element.getParent()) {
>     String ns = element.getAttributeValue(declAttName);
    // ...
> }

(as an addenda to my questions re dtd encoding:)

how does one do attribute defaulting on attributes in the "xmlns" namespace
when the universal name of the element type is not yet defined?

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