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Legacy ID: #4771353 Legacy Poster: nico_inria (nico_inria)

Hi, It seems that is a well known and old problem : see http://xsd.stylusstudio.com/2000Nov/post01006.htm and I would like to have your opinions on it. I would like to create the simplest XML content : an element "root" with an attribute "rootAttribute", with the same namespace. Here is my code (I want to respect the JAXP specification) : //create the org.w3c.dom.Document object DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document document = documentBuilder.newDocument(); //create the element root and its attribute rootAttribute Element root = document.createElementNS("http://test&quot;,&quot;root"); document.appendChild(root); Attr rootAttribute = document.createAttributeNS("http://test&quot;,&quot;attribute"); rootAttribute.setValue("value"); root.setAttributeNodeNS(rootAttribute); And here the Xml I get : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root xmlns="http://test" xmlns:NS1="http://test" NS1:attribute="value"/> !!?? So why do I have the same namespace declared twice with two different prefixes ?? Please tell me XML is not so complex.