Re: [Bodington-developers] IMS CP, Xerces and the vital asterisk

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Peter Crowther wrote:
> Found the glitch, after considerable experimentation.  Different
> versions of Xerces appear to treat a wildcard ("*") namespaceURI in
> ElementImpl::getAttributeNS() differently.  This means that code that
> successfully located <imsmd:langstring imsmd:lang="en"> and <langstring
> lang="en"> in the version of the parser in which I developed the CP
> extensions does not work with newer Xerces versions.
> 
> Anyone know of a portable way of wildcarding the namespace URI?

Can you pass it NULL as the namespace?

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