[New-bugs-announce] [issue6098] xml.dom.minidom incorrectly claims DOM Level 3 conformance

[Philipp Hagemeister]

New submission from Philipp Hagemeister <phihag at phihag.de>:

>From DOM Level 3[1]: "An implementation conforms to a DOM Level 3 module
if it supports all the interfaces for that module and the associated
semantics.". minidom supports only some Level 3 functions such as
Node.renameNode, Element.setIdAttribute*, Text.replaceWholeText and
Node.isSameNode.

Apart from full DOM Level 2 conformance such as functional namespace
handling, many semantics are available under a different name, such as
DOMImplementation.getFeature (minidom: getInterface),
Text.getWholeText(minidom: _getWholeText) or missing
(Attr.schemaTypeInfo, Document.inputEncoding, Document.xmlEncoding,
Document.xmlStandalone, Document.xmlVersion, Document.domConfig,
Document.adoptNode, Document.normalizeDocument,
DOMException.VALIDATION_ERR, DOMException.TYPE_MISMATCH_ERR,
Node.baseURI, Node.textContent, Node.compareDocumentPosition,
Node.lookupPrefix, Node.isDefaultNamespace, Node.lookupNamespaceURI,
Node.isEqualNode, Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_*,
Text.isElementContentWhitespace).

Users explicitely asking for DOM Level 3 conformance will run into
unexpected problems. Attached is a patch that removes the DOM L3
conformance declarations.

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components: XML
files: minidom-dont-declare-level3.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 88282
nosy: phihag
severity: normal
status: open
title: xml.dom.minidom incorrectly claims DOM Level 3 conformance
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14058/minidom-dont-declare-level3.diff

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