YAP - Prefix tracking

[Dave Smith <di...@jabber.org>]

Greetings,

I've been doing a fair amount of work with XML signatures/c14n  and have 
found that xmlbeans doesn't track prefixes as it should. Now, I would 
agree that prefixes are overrated, and were never intended to be used as 
they are in modern XML specs (such as xml-dsig and xml-enc). However, I 
have to work with this stuff, so I need my outstanding Java XML library 
to help me out.

As such, here is a patch to the underlying XML store to support 
(rudimentary) prefix preservation/tracking. So far it only works if you 
are parsing using the SAX loader and if you're outputting using the DOM 
saver, but it's a start.

If the core teams considers that the current behaviour of disregarding 
prefixes on input/output is a bug, I will be glad to file this patch as 
such.

D.