Hi all,
I am having some trouble figuring out what is going on here - is this a
bug, or correct behaviour? Basically, when I create an XML document with
a namespace using xml.dom.minidom.parse() or parseString(), the
namespace exists as an xmlns attribute in the DOM (fair enough, as it's
in the original source document). However, if I use the DOM
implementation to create an identical document with a namespace, the
xmlns attribute is not present.
This mainly affects me when I go to print out the document again using
Document.toxml(), as the xmlns attribute is not printed for documents I
create dynamically, and therefore XSLT does not kick in (I'm using an
external processor).
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Should I file a bug on pyxml?
Greg
Python 2.3.3 (#1, May 7 2004, 10:31:40)
[GCC 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)] on linux2
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>>> import xml.dom.minidom
>>> raw = '<test xmlns="http://example.com/namespace"/>'
>>> doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(raw)
>>> print doc.documentElement.namespaceURI[/color][/color][/color]
http://example.com/namespace[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print doc.documentElement.getAttribute('xmlns')[/color][/color][/color]
http://example.com/namespace[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> impl = xml.dom.minidom.getDOMImplementation()
>>> doc2 = impl.createDocument('http://example.com/namespace','test',None)
>>> print doc2.documentElement.namespaceURI[/color][/color][/color]
http://example.com/namespace[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print doc2.documentElement.getAttribute('xmlns')[/color][/color][/color]
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]
