Re: [xml] Namespaces! Agh!

["ensonic" <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Would it make sense to add a #define XML_NS_NULL (-1) for that purpose and
handle it respectively? Still not nice though.

Stefan

On 9:34:38 pm 01/07/2006 Nic James Ferrier <nferrier tapsellferrier co uk>
wrote:
> Ok. Here's something I don't understand about namespaces (libxml2 in
> python):
>
>     dom = libxml2.newDoc("1.0")
>
>     root = dom.newChild(None, "root", None)
>     ns = root.newNs("http://www.tfnet.co.uk/somenamespace";, "ns")
>     root.setNs(ns)
>
>     node = root.newChild(ns, "element", None)
>     node.newChild(None, "child", None)
>
>
> And the output is:
>
>    <root xmlns:ns="http://www.tfnet.co.uk/somenamespace";>
>      <ns:element>
>        <ns:child/>
>      </ns:element>
>    </root>
>
> And the bit I don't understand is why the child element is marked with
> the ns namespace.
>
>
> Can anyone explain this?
>
> --
> Nic Ferrier
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