Re: [xml] Namespaces and Uniqueness of Attributes

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

Karl Eichwalder said:
> Up to libxml2 2.6.11 xmllint used to parse this code
>
> <element name="foo" xmlns:rng="http://example.org/ns/1";
> xmlns="http://example.org/ns/1";>
>   <empty/>
> </element>
>
> as
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <element xmlns:rng="http://example.org/ns/1"; xmlns="http://example.org/ns/1";
> name="foo">
>   <empty/>
> </element>
>
> Now it adds the prefix of the default(?) namespace:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <element xmlns:rng="http://example.org/ns/1"; xmlns="http://example.org/ns/1";
> name="foo">
>   <rng:empty/>
> </element>
>
> If the attributes are unique, it does not add the prefix:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <element xmlns:rng="http://example.org/ns/1"; xmlns="http://example.org/ns/1X";
> name="foo">
>   <empty/>
> </element>
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <element xmlns:rng="http://example.org/ns/1"; xmlns="http://example.org/ns/1X";
> name="foo">
>   <empty/>
> </element>
>
> This change affects the trang testsuite.
> _______________________________________________

I believe this was caused by some changes introduced at the end of July in the
module SAX2.c.  I made a small modification to that logic which should fix the
problem you reported.  The changed code is in CVS - please try it and report
any further trouble.

Thanks for the report.

Bill