> you forgot > > http://effbot.org/zone/element-infoset.htm > > which describes the 3-node XML infoset subset used by ElementTree.
No, I did not forget your infoset subset. I was comparing it with other infoset subsets described in various XML specifications. I agree 100% that prefixes were not *supposed* to be part of the document's meaning back when the XML namespace specification was written, but later specifications broke that. Please take a look at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n#NoNSPrefixRewriting "... there now exist a number of contexts in which namespace prefixes can impart information value in an XML document..." "...Moreover, it is possible to prove that namespace rewriting is harmful, rather than simply ineffective." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
