Greg Wogan-Browne wrote: > 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? It's odd behavior, but I think it's a stretch to call it a bug. You problem is that you're mixing namespaced documents with the non-namespace DOM API. That means trouble and such odd quirks every time. Use getAttributeNS, createElementNS, setAttributeNS, etc. rather than getAttribute, createElement, setAttribute, etc. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Introducing the Amara XML Toolkit - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/amara.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html Manage XML collections with XAPI - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xapi.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html Packaging XSLT lookup tables as EXSLT functions - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook2.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
