Problem with xml.dom parser and xmlns attribute

Thu Apr 22 05:25:42 EDT 2004

Hi,

I have a problem parsing html text with xmldom. The following code
runs well:

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from xml.dom.ext.reader import HtmlLib
from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint

r = HtmlLib.Reader()
doc = r.fromString(
'''
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p>hallo welt
</body>
</html>
''')
PrettyPrint(doc)
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but if I replace <html> by <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
I get the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "xhtml.py", line 5, in ?
     doc = r.fromString(
   File "C:\PROGRA~1\Python23\lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\dom\ext\reader\HtmlLib.py", line 69, in fromString
     return self.fromStream(stream, ownerDoc, charset)
   File "C:\PROGRA~1\Python23\lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\dom\ext\reader\HtmlLib.py", line 27, in fromStream
     self.parser.parse(stream)
   File "C:\PROGRA~1\Python23\lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\dom\ext\reader\Sgmlop.py", line 57, in parse
     self._parser.parse(stream.read())
   File "C:\PROGRA~1\Python23\lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\dom\ext\reader\Sgmlop.py", line 160, in finish_starttag
     unicode(value, self._charset))
   File "C:\PROGRA~1\Python23\lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\dom\Element.py", line 177, in setAttributeNS
     attr = self.ownerDocument.createAttributeNS(namespaceURI, qualifiedName)
   File "C:\PROGRA~1\Python23\lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\dom\Document.py", line 139, in createAttributeNS
     raise NamespaceErr()
xml.dom.NamespaceErr: Invalid or illegal namespace operation
 >Exit code: 1

A lot of HTML documents on Internet have this xmlns=.... Are
they wrong or is this a PyXML bug?

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

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