[XML-SIG] namespace error - how to ignore

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 00:54, Ajay wrote:
> hi!
> 
> i have the following code to create a a document
> ssock = StringIO.StringIO(inputString)
> reader = Sax2.Reader()
> doc = reader.fromStream(ssock)
> 
> input string simply contains <appel:RULE></appel:RULE>
> when i run it, it throws a namespace error. i can understand where the
> error is coming from (i haven't defined the namespace), but is there a way
> to get past it? to get it to ignore the namespace?
> the same thing in Java works fine (without worrying about the namespace).

Sax.Reader is not namespace aware, so it should accept this.  However,
you're on the wrong trap:

1) Why are you trying to parse a document that is not XML namespace
compliant?  You'll have nothing but trouble.

2) I suggest not using 4DOM (i.e. xml.dom.ext.reader)


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