I wrote: """ The reality is that once the poor user has done:
element = document.createElementNS("DAV:", "href") They are following DOM specification that they have created an element in a namespace, and you seem to be arguing that they cannot usefully have completed their work until they also do: element.setAttributeNS(xml.dom.XMLNS_NAMESPACE, None, "DAV:") I'd love to hear how many actual minidom users would agree with you. """ Of course (FWIW) I meant element.setAttributeNS(xml.dom.XMLNS_NAMESPACE, "xmlns", "DAV:") -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list