[XML-SIG] DOM and empty namespaces

[Uche Ogbuji]

> > OK, I've just commited the changes to 4DOM. 
> > 
> >  1. raise NamespaceErr when '' is used as a nsURI
> 
> I think that was a mistake. "" is a valid namespace, unless I'm
> mistaken. Eg. 
> 
> <foo xmlns:empty="">
>  <empty:element />
> </foo>
> 
> conforms to the namespace spec, AFAICT.

I disagree.  True, the spec is quite unclear, but it does explicitly state 
that "" is used to remove a default namespace declaration.  I would say that 
this probably disqualifies "" from being a proper nsref.


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