[4suite] DomWriter problem

[Alexandre Fayolle]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alexandre Fayolle wrote:

> The problem is on this line:
> new_element.setAttributeNS( extraNss[''],'xmlns','')
> 
> the new element is 'foo' and at this point, extraNss is {'': 'xsl'}, so 
> we have an non empty namespace-uri. I have the feeling that I completely
> misunderstood what this parameter stands for when I wrote DowWriter. Could
> someone enlighten me?

I gave a look at SaxWriter, and the similar piece of code says:
for prefix in extraNss.keys():
    if prefix:
        self.__currElement.attrs["xmlns:"+prefix] =extraNss[prefix]
    else:
        self.__currElement.attrs["xmlns"] = extraNss['']

If I understand correctly, we would be setting an 'xmlns' attribute, with
a value of 'xsl' (given the values mentionned above). This would mean that
the default namespace for the foo element would be 'xsl' ????

Should the line 45 in DomWriter be changed to something like 
new_element.setAttributeNS('','xmlns',extraNss[''])


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