RFR (JAXP): 8148350: Element.setAttributeNS() empty namespace does not throw exception

[Lance Andersen]

Looks OK also.  Joe given this is a change in functionality, it might need a CCC fast tracked before it is pushed?


> On Jul 12, 2016, at 4:03 PM, huizhe wang <huizhe.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Aleksej,
> 
> The change looks good. Ideally though, it would be good to update the relevant Javadoc to reflect the change since this part of Javadoc is quite explicit about when NAMESPACE_ERR is thrown.
> 
> Also, this is a good opportunity to update the Lic header.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> On 7/12/2016 11:04 AM, Aleks Efimov wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Please, help to review the fix for org.w3c.dom.Element#setAttributeNS method in JDK9:
>> According to w3.org documentation empty string cannot be used as a namespace name [1]. Therefore the setAttributeNS [2] should raise DOMException (NAMESPACE_ERR) when namespaceURI is empty string (similar to null value).
>> Webrev with proposed fix (regtest is included):
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aefimov/8148350/9/00/
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Aleksej
>> 
>> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/#iri-use
>> [2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Element.html#setAttributeNS-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-
>> 
> 

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