[XML-SIG] problem with empty namespace uri

[Alexandre Fayolle]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> spelled out explicitly in all places. I do not think that applications
> should need to behave polymorphically, accepting either None or "".

I could not agree more. 
 
<snipped useful ref to specs>
 
> If everybody agrees that this is how it should be, we should document
> it as such where appropriate, and fix existing implementations
> accordingly.

So to sum things up, this means that:

 * the patch to drv_xmlproc should be correct. I believe drv_expat should 
be already fine;
 * 4DOM/minidom/etc. should be updated to use None for the namespace uri;
 * applications using these implementation should be updated. 


Alexandre Fayolle
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