[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the actual problem you're trying to solve? If you just want to > force a namespace declaration in output (this is sually to support > QNames in content) the most well-known XML hack is to create a dummy > attribute with the needed prefix and namespace. But this does not work > when you're trying to force a default namespace declaration. Then > again, you generally can't use QNames in content with a default > namespace declaration. So my guess is that you somehow got way off the > rails in your problem-solving, and you'll need to provide mre > background if you want help.
I wanted to remove documentation elements from some XML Schema files. The problem showed when I tried to use the stripped schemas, because the namespace declaration for user-defined types was missing. Of course, since these types are named and referred to in attribute *values*, Amara had no way to know that the namespace declaration was still needed (didn't matter if default or non-default). This is more a problem of how XML Schema is defined against XML namespace rules, since XML Schena uses namespaces in a context of which XML parsers aren't normally aware. > BTW, I recommend upgrading to Amara 1.1.7. That branch will soon be > 1.2, and I consider it more mature than 1.0 at this point. The API's > also easier: I know, especially the insert-before/after feature :) But I ran into a problem that I describe below and you advertised 1.0 as "stable version", so I switched immediately. The problem can be reproduced like this: >>> import amara >>> amara.parse('http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd') START DTD xs:schema -//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN XMLSchema.dtd http://www.w3.org/2001/datatypes.dtd:99:23: Attribute 'id' already declared http://www.w3.org/2001/datatypes.dtd:122:23: Attribute 'id' already declared http://www.w3.org/2001/datatypes.dtd:130:27: Attribute 'id' already declared ...some 40 more lines like this and then Python crashes (Windows shows the bug-reporting dialog) Thanks for your interest, AdSR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list