[XML-SIG] Conditions for using XLink

[Dinu Gherman]

Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>:

> > I'm trying to read XML files with FromXmlFile() that contain XLink
> > attributes like this: <foo xlink:href="#bar"/>. This results in the
> > following traceback below. I'm using the following environment:
> 
> This is almost certainly a bug in your XML.  Can you post the whole
> thing?  Or perhaps a smaller subset of it that demonstrates the prob-
> lem, but is complete in itself.

I found that adding the following xmlsn-attribute to the root 
element:

  <document xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

things work much better and there is no more traceback.
But then I need to access the attribute value for, say, 

  <foo xlink:href="#bar"/>

And after looking into the test suite I'm able to get it, but *only* 
in this way:

  xlink_href = node.getAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink', 'href')

but not as I had liked, e.g. like this:

  xlink_href = node.getAttributeNS('xlink', 'href')

So, I wonder if I really need to give the full URI, because that would 
mean I need to store this at the beginning for the root element. I'm
feeling like I must be doing or getting something wrong about it...

Thanks for shedding some light into this, if you please!

Regards,

Dinu