Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] php5: ext/dom: unused namespace-definitions

From: "Vivian Steller" <[email protected]>

> if i have a document like:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <prefix:element xmlns:prefix="namespaceUri"
>                 xmlns:unusedPrefix="unusedNamespaceURI">
>         <!-- nothing -->
> </prefix:element>
>
> you can see that there is no element making use of the namespace
> "unusedNamespaceURI".
> passing this data to any doc->loadXML($data) method, the loadXML function
> will remove the unused "xmlns:unusedPrefix" definition from the node. this
> causes problems in my programm... is there a possibility to prevent the
> function from removing unused namespaces?!
>
> I think this example shows a real case scenario - the possiblity to
prevent
> the load functions from "optimizing" the dom-tree like this would be
> helpfull.

Have no idea what you mean that it is removing the unused namespace.

doc->loadXML($data)
print doc->saveXML()

shows that the unused namespace still exists within the document. The load
does nothing special to the data other than to pass it on to libxml

Rob