DO NOT REPLY [Bug 11371] - setAttributeNS allows you to set attributes bound to namespaces that are not defined.

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setAttributeNS allows you to set attributes bound to namespaces that are not defined.





------- Additional Comments From keshlam@us.ibm.com  2002-08-01 16:39 -------
Sounds like correct operation per the DOM Level 2 spec. 

Namespaces in the DOM are handled by "early binding"; the declaration is not 
normally consulted by the DOM per se, and declarations are not required for 
correct operation of the DOM. 

If you serialize a DOM back to XML syntax (which seems to be what you mean by 
"if the document is persisted", it is the serializer's responsibility to deal 
with this situation by creating declarations at reasonable places when it 
discovers they are necessary. I believe the Xerces serializers do include that 
logic; if not, it should be added to them. (I know Xalan's serialization layer 
does generate namespace declarations when needed.)

The DOM Level 3 Working Draft formalizes that by defining a namespace-usage 
normalization process which is used by the Load/Save module and which can be 
invoked by the user when desired. The precise algorithm has been evolving over 
time; once it's fully cooked, we should probably make sure our results are 
reasonably compatable with what they've defined.

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