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Hi,
Why am i not getting the localName in the endElement() when i use this class DefaultHandler
The syntax says ,
localName - The local name (without prefix), or the empty string if Namespace processing is not being performed.
So how should i perform "Namespace processing"
anyone know this ?
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Answer 1

localName - The local name (without prefix), or the empty string if Namespace processing is not being performed.Most SAX parsers perform namespace processing on namespace qualifed elements by default, with an option to turn it off.
The XML document you are parsing may or may not be using namespaces.
If it does use namespaces, then the local name will be the local name of an element whose tag name is in a namespace. If the element's tag name is not in a namespace, then the local name may be empty. Whether or not is a parser implementation variation point.
Use the qName to get a non-namespaced element's tag name.
Some discussion as to whether SAX implementations follow the spirit of the XML namespaces spec. can be found here: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200205/msg01378.html
Pete