Re: [xml] Namespace equality with Python bindings

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:40:48PM -0400, Anthony Carrico wrote:
> In libxml2 with Python bindings, what is the proper way to check for
> xmlNS equality? Is a pointer compare possible?
  no

> Is a string compare necessary? Is it like this?:

  yes

> ns = root.searchNsByHref(doc, "http://blahblah";)
> ns.content == root.ns().content
>
> Is this kind of "semantic" issue documented someplace?

  yes in the code ! all the node objects at the python level
are wrappers objects around the internal C objects. The comparison
must be done between the C objects, the python ones are allocated
on the fly.

Daniel

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