Dillon Amburgey <dillona@dillona.com> added the comment: The behavior can be verified as follows. Notice that despite changing the value, the output XML does not change
from xml.dom import minidom, Node a = minidom.parseString("<a href=\"http://asd.com\">asd</a>") a <xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x22d7c68> a.childNodes [<DOM Element: a at 0x22d7d88>] a.childNodes[0] <DOM Element: a at 0x22d7d88> a.childNodes[0].attributes <xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap object at 0x21caa70> a.childNodes[0].attributes.item(0) <xml.dom.minidom.Attr instance at 0x22d7f38> a.childNodes[0].attributes.item(0).name u'href' attr = a.childNodes[0].attributes.item(0) attr.name = "ad" a.toxml() u'<?xml version="1.0" ?><a href="http://asd.com">asd</a>' attr.value = "asd" a.toxml() u'<?xml version="1.0" ?><a href="asd">asd</a>'
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