On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Matthew J. Dovey wrote:

> > is bad but still legal XML.  Bad because once you extract the record
> > from the SRW wrapper, it loses the namespace definitions.

> Err no - the above is both perfectly legal and good XML. In fact it is a

I agree that it's legal, but for our purposes it's definitely not 'good'
because those namespaces definitely are NOT inherited by records packed as
_strings_.

> I suspect that the problem is that you are trying to parser the XML
> document as an text document rather than an XML document.

No, as above.

And even if I was, the SOAP toolkit which does this parsing may or may not
respect it and that's not something in my control.  (Mine does, but I
obviously make no guarantees about others)

Rob

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