[4suite] DomWriter problem

[Uche Ogbuji]

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[''])

Ha ha!  See my last message.  SaxWriter is broken as well.  And that's
our code.  Ah well.

Thanks for pointing this out.

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