[XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Bugs-912327 ] HTMLDocument and HTMLElement upper case attributes sometimes

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Bugs item #912327, was opened at 2004-03-08 22:27
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Category: DOM
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Murray Steele (murraysteele)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: HTMLDocument and HTMLElement upper case attributes sometimes

Initial Comment:
xml.dom.html.HTMLDocument overrides createAttribute of
xml.dom.Document to create an attribute with an
uppercase version of the attribute name passed in. 
xml.dom.html.HTMLElement then overrides getAttribute,
getAttributeNode, hasAttribute, removeAttribute and
setAttribute of xml.dom.Element to look for attributes
with an uppercase name.  So far so good (bug: 555303
not-with-standing).

Unfortunately xml.dom.ext.reader.Sgmlop calls
setAttributeNS (which eventually calls through to
createAttributeNS in xml.dom.Document) to create
attribute nodes on the HTMLElements.  This neatly
bypasses the uppercasing done in HTMLDocument and
HTMLElement and means that none of the neat
htmlanchorelement.href attribute references work.  Shame :(

Seems like the simple fix is to add createAttributeNS
to HTMLDocument and/or setAttributeNS to HTMLElement
and have these methods pass through to the base class
methods with uppercased names instead. Although it
seems like a more thorough fix would invovle making
sure that all the (get|set)Attribute(.*) methods of the
xml.dom.html objects are made auto-upper-case-magic.

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