Just out of curiousity, I was wondering why if you call Element.getChild( elementName ) without explicitly passing a namespace, why does JDOM assume no namespace rather than assuming the namespace of the parent element ( the element you are calling getChild() against )?

It seems like that since when the XML is parsed, child elements that don’t have a namespace defined inherit their parent elements namespace, that the getChild() method would behave the same way when not passing a specific namespace in.

Just my $0.02

Thoughts?

Chris Schmidt

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