Chris Spencer: """ Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Chris Spencer wrote:
> > If an XML parser reads in and then writes out a document without having > > altered it, then the new document should be the same as the original. > says who? Good question. There is no One True Answer even within the XML standards. It all boils down to how you define "the same". Which parts of the XML document are meaningful content that needs to be preserved and which ones are mere encoding variations that may be omitted from the internal representation? """ One can point out the XML namespaces spec all one wants, but it doesn't matter. The fact is that regardless of what that spec says, as you say, Chris, there are too many XML technologies that require prefix retention. As a simple example, XPath and XSLT, W3C specs just like XMLNS, uses qnames in context, which requires prefix retention. Besides all that, prefix retention is generally more user friendly in round-trip or poartial round-trip scenarios. That's why cDomlette, part of 4Suite [1] and Amara [2], a more Pythonic API for this, both support prefix retention by default. [1] http://4suite.org [2] http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4Suite/amara/ -- Uche http://copia.ogbuji.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
