New submission from Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@divmod.com>:
It seems impossible to clone an Element created without a document:
>>> Element('foo').cloneNode(False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 211, in cloneNode
return _clone_node(self, deep, self.ownerDocument or self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1814, in _clone_node
if node.ownerDocument.isSameNode(newOwnerDocument):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'isSameNode'
The documentation claims that cloneNode was fixed for releases
"subsequent" to 2.0, but this doesn't appear to be true.
http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.minidom.html#xml.dom.minidom.Node.cloneNode
A similar issue occurs when attempting to import a node into a document
(something I tried as a work-around for this failure):
>>> d.importNode(e, False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1737, in importNode
return _clone_node(node, deep, self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1814, in _clone_node
if node.ownerDocument.isSameNode(newOwnerDocument):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'isSameNode'
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 79203
nosy: exarkun
severity: normal
status: open
title: xml.dom.minidom.Element.cloneNode fails with AttributeError
type: behavior
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