Re: [xml] Invalid namespace definitions after namespace change

[Jacek Konieczny <jajcus bnet pl>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:20:15AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   DOM and libxml2 are completely different because in libxml2 the namespace
> informations are shared, if you modify the namespace node you instead of just
> changing the anmespace pointer then you:
>
>     1/ don't have to chase all the other nodes to make the same change
>     2/ don't need to creat new namespaces node and try to track and remove
>        the old namespace informations

It seems there is no way to modify an existing namespace in python.

> > > import libxml2
> > > d=libxml2.parseDoc("<a xmlns='http://a'/>")
> > > r=d.getRootElement()
> > > r.ns().content
'http://a'
> > > r.ns().setContent("http://b";)
> > > r.ns().content
'http://a'
> > > r.ns().content="http://b";
> > > r.ns().content
'http://a'
> > > d.serialize()
'<?xml version="1.0"?>\n<a xmlns="http://a"/>\n'

Greets,
        Jacek