at second glance too...
> String expandName(String name, Element element, boolean isAttribute) {
> // ...
> for (; element != null; element = element.getParent()) {
> String ns = element.getAttributeValue(declAttName);
// ...
> }
(as an addenda to my questions re dtd encoding:)
how does one do attribute defaulting on attributes in the "xmlns" namespace
when the universal name of the element type is not yet defined?