Re: minidom: Genius or just plain bad?

"Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> Sun, 31 May 2009 00:30:29 +0200

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Philipp Hagemeister wrote:
> I was puzzled when I tripped over the following:
> 
>>>> NS = 'http://phihag.de/2009/test/python/ns'
>>>> s = '<rootelem a="val" xmlns="' + NS + '" />'
>>>> import xml.dom.minidom
>>>> doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(s)
>>>> doc.documentElement.getAttributeNS(NS, 'a')
> '' # wtf?

Why do you think this is incorrect? The root element
has no attribute named 'a' in the NS namespace.

Regards,
Martin
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