[SCXML-88] SCXMLSerializer does not serialize custom namespace declarations

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8
• Fix Version/s: 0.9
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ingmar Kliche
• Created: 08/Nov/08 11:30
• Updated: 03/Dec/08 20:26
• Resolved: 21/Nov/08 21:12

Description

The SCXMLSerializer writes the scxml namespace as the default namespace to the <scxml> root tag and adds a "cs" ("commons-scxml") namespace by default.

But it does not take into account that the original scxml document might contain other namespace declarations, e.g. on child tags:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<scxml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml" xmlns:cs="http://commons.apache.org/scxml" version="1.0" initial="S1">
<state id="S1">
<!-- some E4X like condition using XML namespaces -->
<!-- redefine default namespace to "foo" and use explicit namespace prefix for scxml:transition tag -->
<scxml:transition event="foo" cond="a.b.bar::c.* == 3" target="S2" xmlns="foo" xmlns:scxml="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml" xmlns:bar="bar">
</transition>
</state>
<state id="S2" final="true">
</state>
</scxml>

The above SCXML document is parsed properly and namespaces are forwarded to the executor (i.e. it works correct). But if it comes to serialization the namespaces are not serialized properly.