Alan Kennedy wrote: > Well, if your purpose is to make a point about minidom and DOM standards > compliance in relation to serialisation of namespaces, then what you're > doing wrong is to use a library that bears no relationship to the DOM to > make your point.
Alright. I respectfully withdraw libxml2/libxml2dom as an example of a DOM Level 2 compatible implementation. Since I only profess to support "a PyXML-style DOM" in libxml2dom, the course I take in any amendments to that package will follow whatever Uche decides to do with 4DOM and PyXML. ;-) Whatever happens, I'll attempt to make it compatible with qtxmldom in both its flavours (qtxml and KHTML). As for the various issues with namespaces and the DOM, with memories of slapping empty xmlns attributes strategically-but-desperately in XSL processing pipelines to avoid invisible-but-still-present default namespaces now thankfully receding into the incoherent past, the whole business merely reinforces my impression of the various standards committees as a group of corporate delegates meeting regularly to hold a "measuring competition" amongst themselves. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list