Document.createAttributeNS() accepts namespaceURI="http://xxxx.xx" for "xmlns"

Name: inR10064 Date: 10/20/2000



  Invocation of the method createAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName)
defined in class org.w3c.dom.Document with arguments

document.createAttributeNS("http://xxxx.xx", "xmlns");

doesn't throw DOMException with the NAMESPACE_ERR error code as it sould do
(See test.java below).

  Definition of the method in p. 1.2 "Fundamental Interfaces" of DOM Level 2 Core
(http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#i-Document) says:

" Exceptions
   DOMException
   ...
                NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised
                  if the qualifiedName is malformed,
                      
                  if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null,
                      
                  if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI
                  is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace",
                      
                  if the qualifiedName is "xmlns" and the namespaceURI
                  is different from "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/". "

This bug presents in builds jaxp-1.1ea-b8 and jaxp-1.1fcs-b9 and affects the
new test in TCK JAXP 1.1
api/org_w3c_dom/Document/CreateAttributeNSTests.html#createAttributeNSTest009.

------------------------------------test.java-----------------------------
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

public class test {
    
    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        
        try {
            Document document = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
                                .newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
            
            document.createAttributeNS("http://xxxx.xx", "xmlns");
            
            System.out.println("Created an invalid attribute.");
        } catch (DOMException e) {
            if (e.code == DOMException.NAMESPACE_ERR) {
                System.out.println("OKEY");
            } else {
                System.out.println("Unexpected error code " + e.code);
            }
        } catch (Throwable e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                System.out.println("Unexpected " + e + " was thrown");
        }
    }
}
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% java -version
java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0-C, interpreted mode)

% java test
Created an invalid attribute.
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