[XML-SIG] DOM and empty namespaces

[Alexandre Fayolle]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Rich Salz wrote:

> So that means if I have code that wants to work with pyxml 0.6 and 0.7 I
> need to do this:
> 	try:
> 		from xml.dom import EMPTY_NAMESPACE
> 	except:
> 		EMPTY_NAMESPACE=''
> 
> and make sure all my get...NS() calls use EMPTY_NAMESPACE
> 
> Right?

Almost. If the DOM you're using was created with validation enabled on
PyXML-0.6.6, empty namespace is None... 

> We should probably document this.

Hmm. Probably ;o)

Alexandre Fayolle
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