> As it is, this XML is not parsable
It's parsable with a non-namespace-aware XML parser (ignoring tagsoup parsers as we're pretenting this is supposed to be an XML document)
Apparently, the JDK's javax.xml.parsers.*Factory can return namespace-unaware parsers and — even stranger — do so by default:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/D...
> Specifies that the parser produced by this code will provide support for XML namespaces. By default the value of this is set to false
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/S...
> Specifies that the parser produced by this code will provide support for XML namespaces. By default the value of this is set to false.
Whether they qualify as "modern parsers" can be debated and I didn't test their behavior, but there you are.
> As it is, this XML is not parsable
It's parsable with a non-namespace-aware XML parser (ignoring tagsoup parsers as we're pretenting this is supposed to be an XML document)