getLocalName vs getNodeName

[Lev Lvovsky <li...@sonous.com>]

Is it correct to assume that the getLocalName method will return null  
on a DOMElement object unless a Schema has been specified?  For a very  
simple XML test file, getNodeName returns what it should, however  
getLocalName returns null.  Testing with an XML file for which the  
Schema is supplied, getLocalName works fine.

Otherwise, is there any other reason why this might be happening?

thanks!
-lev

Re: getLocalName vs getNodeName

[Alberto Massari <am...@datadirect.com>]

getLocalName returns NULL if the DOM element has been created when 
namespace processing was off (in order to use a schema namespace 
processing must be on, so in this case it returns non-NULL pointers). So 
you could be not using a schema but having local names in DOM elements.

Alberto

Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> Is it correct to assume that the getLocalName method will return null 
> on a DOMElement object unless a Schema has been specified?  For a very 
> simple XML test file, getNodeName returns what it should, however 
> getLocalName returns null.  Testing with an XML file for which the 
> Schema is supplied, getLocalName works fine.
>
> Otherwise, is there any other reason why this might be happening?
>
> thanks!
> -lev
>
>