[WSS-143] Better management of namespace declarations....

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.6
• Component/s: WSS4J Handlers
• Assignee: Colm O hEigeartaigh
• Reporter: Daniel Kulp
• Created: 26/Sep/08 20:22
• Updated: 05/Feb/09 11:49
• Resolved: 05/Feb/09 11:49

Description

For performance reasons, (and readability) it would be better if wss4j didn't duplicate namespace decls on all the child elements if they are redundant or not needed. For example:

<wsu:Timestamp xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" wsu:Id="Timestamp-1606023307">
<wsu:Created xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">2008-09-26T20:14:28.841Z</wsu:Created>
<wsu:Expires xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">2008-09-26T20:19:28.841Z</wsu:Expires>
</wsu:Timestamp>

could be shortened to:
<wsu:Timestamp xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" wsu:Id="Timestamp-1606023307">
<wsu:Created>2008-09-26T20:14:28.841Z</wsu:Created>
<wsu:Expires>2008-09-26T20:19:28.841Z</wsu:Expires>
</wsu:Timestamp>

That would save bandwidth, make parsing faster (less to parse/process), the DOM model smaller in memory, etc...