Re: [xml] HTMLparser and namespaces

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:25:44PM +1000, Michael Day wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the status of namespaces in HTMLparser?
>
> Currently, the following HTML will produce an error message:
>
>     <p xmlns:foo="blah"></p>
>
>     error: Namespace prefix xmlns of attribute foo is not defined
>
> It seems to be treating "xmlns" as a generic namespace prefix, rather than
> recognising that this is in fact defining the "foo" namespace prefix.
>
> If namespaces are supposed to be supported by the HTMLparser then this
> behaviour should be changed to correctly process the definition.
>
> Alternatively, if the HTMLparser is not supposed to process namespaces
> then this should just be treated as a simple "xmlns:foo" attribute.

  Agreed, this is bogus, probably due to the HTML SAX default handler
reuse of parts of XML handler. The correct way is to disable any
namespace processing from the HTML parser, i.e. not try to even look up
for : in attributes names.

  Please bugzilla,

   thanks !

Daniel

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