Re: Support for integration with XML is broken

Doesn't DOM have a bunch calls in the form blablaNS? These do not work, afaik. 

So yes, you can get the attribute value that happens to have a AAA:BBB format. But it does not interpret this. This means that an implementation would have to check every attribute by

- looking at the BBB format
- looking at the AAA:BBB format and check whether there is somewhere an xmlns:AAA attribute up the tree with the right namespace URI...

Ie, the whole management of namespace has to be done manually

Ivan


On Oct 20, 2011, at 16:52 , Henry S. Thompson wrote:

> Ivan Herman writes:
> 
>> HST writes: 
>>> What version(s) of Python are we worrying about here?
>> 
>> 2.6 and 2.7. The latest ones in the Python 2 series
> 
> The following works for me in 2.6 and 2.7 (the former my existing
> installations on Windows, Cygwin and Linux, the latter freshly
> installed on Windows):
> 
>>>> from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
>>>> d=parseString("<r xmlns:x='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' x:about='#foo'/>")
>>>> d.firstChild.getAttributeNode('x:about').localName
> u'about'
>>>> d.firstChild.getAttributeNode('x:about').namespaceURI
> u'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> ht
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