Re: Naespaces of attributes in python API

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:53:47PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Which brings me to the core of my question (which might be a bit off-topic
> on this list): shouldn't prefixing be left to libxml? After all, the namespace
> prefix is just a shortcut to the real namespace and doesn't carry any semantic.

  Wel, in theory, yes. In practice people usually try to fix the prefixes too.

> Having to provide a prefix for a new namespace seems strange and leads to
> code that must test for errors that could be easily avoided:
> 
>  # instead of
>   
>   node.newNs('http://somewhere/over/the/rainbow', 'kansas')
> 
>  # we need to do
> 
>  done = None
>  suff = 0 
>  while(not done):
>    try:
>      node.newNs('http://somewhere/over/the/rainbow', 'pre' + str(suff)) 
>      done = 1
>    except treeError:
>      suff = suff + 1

  Hum, does node.newNs really raise an exception ? Maybe I can't remember ...

Daniel

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