Re: Castor and XML namespaces (was Moving toward a Pluto 1.1 beta releas

[Elliot Metsger <em...@jhu.edu>]

CDoremus@hannaford.com wrote:

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> Sorry, but I don't have a clue about the 
> org.exolab.castor.parser.namespaces parameter and could not figure out 
> from the SVN repository where it came from.

Neither could I.

Here are the default values, set by the castor.properties file contained
in the castor jar:
Overridden value in the portal subproject (default value)
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org.exolab.castor.parser.validation=false (false by default in jar)
org.exolab.castor.parser.namespaces=true (false by default in jar)
org.exolab.castor.indent=true (commented out in jar, I presume that the
default is false)
org.exolab.castor.debug=false (false by default in jar)

So someone chose to explicitly override the default value in
org.exolab.castor.parser.namespaces property.  But I can't tell why.

> When you set the property to 
> false, do any of the testsuite tests fail?

All tests in the testsuite portlet pass except for Portal Info Test - 
Portal info: pluto-driver/1.0.1. Expected: pluto-driver/1.0.1-SNAPSHOT 
(which is benign I think, since I'm building from source).

So... not sure where that leaves us.  I'm pretty confident that
switching the namespaces property value to false is ok.  I am also 
adding some more unit tests to the descriptors sub-project.

I'll commit my patch (PLUTO-216) and the additional/refactored unit
tests for the descriptors project.  I can wait a little while longer on 
the castor.properties file change in case others would like to chime in.

Thanks!
Elliot