Re: Support for integration with XML is broken

FWIW the parser that I use in Perl doesn't do this correctly either.

On 10/20/2011 8:34 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2011, at 14:54 , Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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>> Ivan Herman writes:
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>>> The default xml parser coming with Python (minidom) does not
>>> implement namespace management in its full beauty, afaik. To have
>>> that, and the relevant DOM API calls, would require using some
>>> external XML libraries. The problem with that is that such
>>> libraries, though exist, are not keeping up with the latest Python
>>> releases, because the other libraries are not fully DOM based. (I do
>>> not know them really well, so it would require some extra digging to
>>> find out the details; I use the minidom with a minimal DOM API.)
>> What version(s) of Python are we worrying about here?
> 2.6 and 2.7. The latest ones in the Python 2 series
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> Ivan
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>> Thanks,
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