[XML-SIG] No parents in cloned node?

[Brad Chapman]

Hi Adam;

> Please let me know if this is the wrong list for this.

Nope, this is the right list!

> So you clone a node, it has no parent.  That makes sense.  But the 
cloned
> node's children also have no parents.  Is there a reason for this?  

[....snip... problems with DOM...]

    From your example, it looks like you are using the DOM that comes 
with the pyXML XML-SIG package, right? This is probably actually the 
biggest problem -- that is official deprecated (I don't believe anyone 
is maintaining it any longer) and the 4Suite DOM 
(http://fourthought.com/4Suite/4DOM/) is becoming the new DOM that 
will be included in the XML-SIG package. Things are in a transition 
state right now, so it is kind of a mess. The most recent 4DOMs do 
have the xml/dom namespace, so you'll need to install the XML-SIG 
package, and then rm -rf the dom directory from this (the dom you've 
been using) then install 4DOM (4DOM also has rpms without xml/dom on 
their site to make it easier, I believe).
    4DOM is a very nice DOM implementation and is actively being 
developed. The developers are also very responsive to bug reports and 
questions. I think it would be very worthwhile to try this out -- you 
might find it'll work better for you.

Brad