On 7/5/2010 6:40 AM, Ben Sizer wrote:
Admittedly, it's three clicks away from the library docs on docs.python.org.
http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#xml-namespaces
Hopefully someone will see fit to roll this important documentation
into docs.python.org before the next release... oops, too late. ;)
Not too late for next release. Open a doc issue with as specific a
suggestion as possible.
It's one of those things that's easy to fix when you know what the
problem is. Unfortunately it makes the examples a bit awkward. The
example on http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html
opens up an xhtml file and reads a "p" tag within a "body" tag, but
the xhtml specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#strict) states
that 'The root element of the document must contain an xmlns
declaration for the XHTML namespace'. Therefore I don't see how the
example Python code given could work on a proper xhtml file, given
that there should always be a namespace in effect but the code doesn't
allow for it.
That's my excuse anyway! :)
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Terry Jan Reedy
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