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Posts Tagged ‘xml’

Make your own Java newsreader

By debashish • Jan 6th, 2006 • Category: Technology

XML feeds are the way today to keep a tab on what’s happening in the blogosphere as well as to know about site updates and new additions. I had heard about two popular open source feature-rich Java APIs to deal with the feeds, Rome and Informa but could never really savor them. For one of [...]


Castor and the Namespace bug

By debashish • Nov 1st, 2003 • Category: Technology

While working with a new version of Castor I recently encountered a strange error during unmarshalling (creating Java object out of corresponding XML schema). The error was as follows:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The prefix ‘xml’ is reserved (XML 1.0 Specification) and cannot be declared.
Luckily, some Googling brought me to this thread which explains the probable reasons for this [...]