XML namespace Problem

Question

Hi All,
I'm usign the following code:
Namespace javaworldNS = Namespace.getNamespace("http://www.javaworld.com");
Element myElement = new Element("article", javaworldNS);
myElement.addContent(new Element("title")
                   .setText("Easy Java/XML integration with JDOM"));
Document doc = new Document(myElement);and it is producing this when i write it the doc object onto a file:
<article xmlns="http://www.javaworld.com">
  <title xmlns="">Easy Java/XML integration with JDOM</title>
</article>Now if you see inside title element, an extra empty namespace comes automatically. What i want is the following:
<article xmlns="http://www.javaworld.com">
  <title>Easy Java/XML integration with JDOM</title>
</article>So how can i omit this namespace entry from the child element?
thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You have the question backwards. In the first example, the <title> element is NOT in the default namespace, because it explicitly says so. In the second example, the <title> element IS in the default namespace, because it inherits the namespace from its parent element.
An XML element always inherits its parent element's namespaces unless it explicitly says otherwise.
So if you want the second example as your output, you must declare the <title> element to be in the default namespace just as you declared the <article> element.