Java DOM API Lessons

This document covers lessons-learned/pain-points/gotchyas when dealing with the DOM API (quite possibly the worlds least efficient and least helpful API).

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Because the core data structures don't really support namespaces, this limits the type of changes you might reasonably expect to make when working with various types of DOM nodes.

Lesson: You can not cannot change the namespace URI that was assigned an Element/Attribute when it was created.

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