Comment #3 on issue 1241 by pekka.klarck: `XML` lib: Enhanced support for
namespaces
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1241
This issue was updated by revision 5a247aaad1bd.
It turned out that handling prefixed namespaces using the same approach as
default namespaces was somewhat complicated and end results weren't that
nice. Decided to change namespace handling to strip all {namespaces} from
tag names and isntead moved namespace declations to elements' xmlns
attribute as the default namespace.
This approach is easier to use than the earlier and works as well as it
with default namespaces. With non-default (prefixed) namespaces everything
works nicely too except that those prefixes are lost. Importantly saved XML
will be nevertheless be semantically same as original.
One limitation of this solution is that possible attribute namespaces are
not handled at all. With them stripping {namespaces} isn't possible.
Luckily namespaces are very rarely used with attributes but this limitation
nevertheless needs to be documented.
