- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:13:25 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
Ivan Herman writes:
> Doesn't DOM have a bunch calls in the form blablaNS? These do not work, afaik.
Sorry, but my example shows that they _do_ work!
> So yes, you can get the attribute value that happens to have a
> AAA:BBB format. But it does not interpret this.
Yes it does -- see the example!
> 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...
Not so -- all you have to do is check for .localName=="about", and if
it is, then check for .namespaceURI=="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml".
Presumably you are already doing the first. Doing the second iff you
are not in an XHTML document seems a very modest overhead!
> Ie, the whole management of namespace has to be done manually
No, it doesn't. Please inspect the example again, particularly the
last two lines:
>>> 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'
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