Re: [xml] libxml2 and default namespaces

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:39:42PM +0100, Paul Boddie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There was recently a thread on comp.lang.python which touched on the issue of 
> serialising documents whose root elements have namespaces associated with 
> them, but whose qualified names do not include any prefix. So, by defining a 
> root element with namespace URI as "DAV:" and qualified name "href", the 
> discussion focused on whether the correct serialisation would be this...
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <href xmlns='DAV:'/>
>
> ...or this...
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <href/>

   in the second case the root element has no namespace. So this can't
match your assertion 'root element with namespace URI as "DAV:"'. Obviously
in the second case the element has no namespace.
  I didn't check further, this sounds completely flawed from the start.

Daniel

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