Wilfredo Sánchez Vega:
"""
I'm having some issues around namespace handling with XML:
>>> document = xml.dom.minidom.Document()
>>> element = document.createElementNS("DAV:", "href")
>>> document.appendChild(element)
<DOM Element: href at 0x1443e68>
>>> document.toxml()
'<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<href/>'
Note that the namespace wasn't emitted. If I have PyXML,
xml.dom.ext.Print does emit the namespace:
>>> xml.dom.ext.Print(document)
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><href xmlns='DAV:'/>
Is that a limitation in toxml(), or is there an option to make it
include namespaces?
"""
Getting back to the OP:
PyXML's xml.dom.ext.Print does get things right, and based on
discussion in this thread, the only way you can serialize correctly is
to use that add-on with minidom, or to use a third party, properly
Namespaces-aware tool such as 4Suite (there are others as well).
Good luck.
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